| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Andrea Friedman. Prurient Interests: Gender, Democracy, and Obscenity in New York City, 1909–1945. (Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History.) New York: Columbia University Press. 2000. Pp. x, 290. Cloth $40.00, paper $17.50.

What is obscene? Is it enough to say, with Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, "I know it when I see it?" If so, who is to be the "I," the judge of obscenity? If not, what are the standards to be used? And once obscenity is determined (if it can be), what ought to be done about it? Should the First Amendment be interpreted to protect all forms of speech or is obscene speech to be excluded? Finally, what is the harm that obscenity generates? These questions are at the heart of the modern dilemma over obscenity. They are the questions that the subjects of this fine book debated in New York in the period 1909–1945. . . .

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