United States vs One Book Called Ulysses (1933) w/ Kurt Andersen
This Day (An America 250 History Show)
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Ulysses - The Greatest Promotional Stun of All Time
The 1920s are still part of this roiling culture war in the United States. The Manhattan district attorney made sure that it wasn't going to circulate. It was like so many things like the Scopes trial, you know, nine years earlier or eight years earlier. And all of a sudden people are sneaking in copies of this and it becomes this, I mean, just it's a story.
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