Biography

Ladies and Gentlemen, Lenny Bruce!!

Albert Goldman · 1974

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3,432·Classic

52 yrs

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The definitive biography of Lenny Bruce — the comedian who went to jail for saying words on stage and in doing so changed American free speech forever. Goldman spent years interviewing everyone who knew Bruce, producing a book that is at once a cultural history of postwar America and a tragedy of talent and self-destruction.

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Joe RoganPodcast Host & Comedian

Essential reading for any comedian. I've owned this for 25 years.

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