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Barney Rosset, 89; publisher, First Amendment crusader

By Hillel Italie

 |  Associated Press  

  February 24, 2012

NEW YORK - Barney Rosset was not an author and never completed the memoir of his brave and wild life. But few over the past 60 years had so profound an impact on the way we read today.

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