The Most Dangerous Man in Publishing.

ROSSET, Barney; PUBLISHING; GROVE/ATLANTIC Inc.; CENSORSHIP; LADY Chatterley's Lover (Book : Lawrence); TROPIC of Cancer (Book : Miller)

A biography of the American publisher Barney Rosset is presented. Rosset was born in Chicago is 1922. At the age of 29, as a senior at the New School in New York City, Rosset purchased a printing press company for 3,000 dollars which would become the publishing house Grove Press. Rosset spent years challenging state and federal obscenity laws to publish such previously censored works as "Lady Chatterley's Lover," by D. H. Lawrence and "Tropic of Cancer," by Henry Miller.