Fascinating story of decade-long legal battle over Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’
He knew Joyce, and was a very successful lawyer and a patron of the arts and collector of modern art. The received wisdom until now has been that the case was unwinnable, and that time had to march on for another decade until 1932 when the climate was ripe.
The author, a Washington DC attorney and author of a well-received study of WB Yeats, tells a different story. By 1921, the jurisprudence on obscenity in both federal and state courts in New York was already evolving. This was in no way an unwinnable case, as Quinn maintained.
