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The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses

Kevin Birmingham

An account of the dramatic writing of and fight to publish James Joyce's Ulysses reveals how the now-classic book was the subject of a landmark federal obscenity trial in 1933 that overturned key censorship laws.

HistoryHistory · medium confidenceHistory81 signalsLlm Classifier: History -> HistoryGoogle Books: Biography & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyGoogle Books: Biography & Autobiography -> BiographyCourts & TrialsEssays & Cultural CriticismWar & Military Strategy

Award History

1 wins · 2 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism2016WinnerOfficial source
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionMajor2015LonglistOfficial source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • James Joyce70%

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    The publication of James Joyce's Ulysses was driven by a landmark 1933 federal obscenity trial that overturned key censorship laws.

    Model confidence 66%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 74%.