Times Square Smut the book tells the story of a small circle of publishers, models, artists (and gangsters) who created a sexual revoltion in the 1950s in Times Square, New York City. Three publishers, Irving Klaw, Edward Mishkin and Leonard Burtman publish hundreds of obscene digests and periodicals for the underground of deviants and perverts (and everyone else!) which are sold under the counter and in Times Square book stores. 72 of the books were confiscated, a man was convicted, and the case went all the way to the Supreme Court (who upheld the conviction!) The censorship you have never heard of, the lowlifes and creative folks who literally started it all. 250 pages with hundreds of illustrations. Available in Paperback or instant Ebook HERE. More information on the book is HERE in The Guardian and HERE on the Times Square Smut blog. FREE PREVIEW and ORDERING is HERE on the Blurb.com site.
The true story of seventy two banned books and one man's quest to find them. The Hard-Boiled, Soft-Core Books Banned by the Government in the 1950s. The true story of a Pornographer, a Mobster, a Pin up King and the artists and models they employed. From the gutters of Times Square to the Supreme Court. Books and Illustrations unseen for fifty years with text by Jim Linderman
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Times Square Smut the book tells the story of a small circle of publishers, models, artists (and gangsters) who created a sexual revoltion in the 1950s in Times Square, New York City. Three publishers, Irving Klaw, Edward Mishkin and Leonard Burtman publish hundreds of obscene digests and periodicals for the underground of deviants and perverts (and everyone else!) which are sold under the counter and in Times Square book stores. 72 of the books were confiscated, a man was convicted, and the case went all the way to the Supreme Court (who upheld the conviction!) The censorship you have never heard of, the lowlifes and creative folks who literally started it all. 250 pages with hundreds of illustrations. Available in Paperback or instant Ebook HERE. More information on the book is HERE in The Guardian and HERE on the Times Square Smut blog. FREE PREVIEW and ORDERING is HERE on the Blurb.com site.