OBSCENE: A PORTRAIT OF BARNEY ROSSET AND GROVE PRESS

DVD. 90 Minutes. Color, widescreen, NTSC. Barney Rosset was the greatest American publisher of the twentieth century and the most influential cultural figure that you haven't heard of. Under Rosset, Grove Press and Evergreen Review fought decisive battles, including many before the state and federal supreme courts, defeated legal censorship, and opened American life to new and dangerous currents of freedom. But Rosset's public fight against hypocrisy and injustice is inextricable from his tumultuous personal life: the same unyeilding, quixotic, restless energy that upended centuries of law brought Rosset perilously close to destruction. Starring: Barney Rosset, with Amiri Baraka, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Al Goldstein, John Rechy, Ed Sanders, John Sayles, John Waters, etc. DVD in plastic clamshell case. Still sealed. New.