The Legal Exhibitionist

Morris Ernst, Jewish Identity, and the Modern Celebrity Lawyer

By:

Joel Silverman

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The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities

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Born to a Jewish immigrant shopkeeper in a small Alabama town, Morris Ernst used aggressive self-promotion and exaggeration—what 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, any practically anyone whose work carried some weight in popular culture. But his hunger for respect and recognition, and his need for excitement, led Ernst to lavish praise on J. Edgar Hoover and to publicly defend, and profit from, a Dominican dictator. Ernst thereby undermining his own credibility and largely fell out of favor with the public. By examining key moments of his life and career, The Legal Exhibitionist describes how Ernst's exhibitionism led to his rise and fall and suggests how his strategy of exaggeration anticipated the rise of today's celebrity lawyers.

Author Biography:

Joel Silverman is director of academic and educational affairs for Yale College.

Release date NZ

April 15th, 2022

Author

Joel Silverman

Series

The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities

Pages

216

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

Illustrations, unspecified; Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs

Dimensions

161x228x19

ISBN-13

9781683933359

Product ID

35631639

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