This book provides a really fascinating look into moral and legal culture in the 1960s via a trio of obscenity cases, and I love the way Rembar takes us on a long walk through events surrounding those cases.

Very interesting to learn about how these cases ultimately shaped the freedom of press and publication that would be seen later.

Also, I just learned the word "con·cu·pis·cence" (meaning "being mad turned on"). Nice.

This was a really great book. It records the multi-year plan Rembar designed and implemented that resulted in the revision of the law governing obscenity. Lots of tactical stuff, cross and direct of witnesses during trials.

In this day and age, it is hard to believe that there was a time when books were routinely banned for "obscenity." This book details the ultimately successful fight against the censorship of three books: Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, and Fanny Hill. The last book resulted in a 1966 Supreme Court case which held that a book was entitled to first amendment protection and could not be banned unless it was utterly without social value.

Rembar, who was the lawyer in the three cases, places large chunks of his brief and trial transcripts in the book. It sounds boring, but I did not find it so. He can't resist making numerous asides in the notes, and is not afraid to criticize Judges (something I find missing from so much of today's legal writing).