Neil Ortenberg & Daniel O'Connor

Neil Ortenberg & Daniel O'Connor
Tanya Ager Meillier & Alexander Meillier

Barney Rosset is the greatest American publisher of the twentieth century and the most influential cultural figure that you haven’t heard of. Under Rosset, Grove Press and Evergreen Review fought decisive battles, including many before the state and federal supreme courts, defeated legal censorship, and opened American life to new and dangerous currents of freedom. But Rosset’s public fight against hypocrisy and injustice is inextricable from his tumultuous personal life: the same unyeilding, quixotic, restless energy that upended centuries of law brought Rosset perilously close to destruction.

Music By:
Bob Dylan - I Threw It All Away
The Doors - Back Door Man
Patti Smith - Spell
Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns, and Money
Jim Carroll - Falling Down Laughing
X - Adult Books
Ella Fitzgerald - All The Things You Are

Barney Rosset
with
Amiri Baraka
Jim Carroll
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Al Goldstein
Erica Jong
Ray Manzarek
Michael McClure
John Rechy
Ed Sanders
John Sayles
Gore Vidal
John Waters

and
Lenny Bruce
William S. Burroughs
Allen Ginsberg
Henry Miller
Malcolm X

90 Mins | 4:3 | Stereo | BW | Not Rated