bRecipient of the 2015 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction pThe arrival of a significant young nonfiction writer . . . A measured yet bravura performance. --Dwight Garner, iThe New York Timesib p James Joyce's big blue book, iUlyssesi, ushered in the modernist era and changed the novel for all time. But the genius of iUlysses iwas also its danger it omitted absolutely nothing. Joyce, along with some of the most important publishers and writers of his era, had to fight for years to win the freedom to publish it. iThe Most Dangerous Book itells the remarkable story surrounding Ulysses, from the first stirrings of Joyce's inspiration in 1904 to the book's landmark federal obscenity trial in 1933. Written for ardent Joyceans as well as novices who want to get to the heart of the greatest novel of the twentieth century, iThe Most Dangerous Book iis a gripping examination of how the world came to say Yes to iUlyssesi.