Legal Exhibitionist (eBook)

Morris Ernst, Jewish Identity, and the Modern Celebrity Lawyer

Joel Silverman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
216 Seiten
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Verlag)
978-1-68393-336-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Born to a Jewish immigrant shopkeeper in a small Alabama town, Morris Ernst used aggressive self-promotion and exaggerationwhat he called ';exhibitionism'to transcend his insecurities and his part-time legal training to become one of America's most famous lawyers. During the first half of the twentieth century, Ernst championed free speech, sexual education, birth control, and reproductive health, and his landmark defense of James Joyce's Ulysses in 1933 cemented Ernst's reputation as the top progressive attorney of the era. To promote himself, Ernst befriended newspaper writers, authors, actors, politicians, and practically anyone whose work carried some weight in popular culture. But his hunger for respect and recognition, together with his need for excitement, led Ernst to lavish praise on J. Edgar Hoover and to publicly defendand profit froma Dominican dictator. In the process, Ernst undermined his own credibility and largely fell out of favor with the public. By examining key moments of his life and career, The Legal Exhibitionist: Morris Ernst, Jewish Identity, and the Modern Celebrity Lawyer describes how Ernst's exhibitionism led to his rise and fall and suggests how his strategy of exaggeration anticipated the emergence of today's celebrity lawyers.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.4.2022
• Reihe/Serie: The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
• Zusatzinfo: 5 Illustrations including: - 5 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: American Jewish History • American legal history • American Studies • Biography • Celebrity • Celebrity Lawyer • Gender Studies • Identity • Law Studies • Legal Studies • Masculinity
• ISBN-10: 1-68393-336-2 / 1683933362
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68393-336-6 / 9781683933366