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“My Friend the Censor”: Henry Miller, Huntington Cairns, and Tropic of Cancer

In September the American writer Henry Miller, age 42, had published in Paris his autobiographical novel Tropic of Cancer. In that same month, 3, miles across the Atlantic Ocean in Washington, D.C., the Secretary of the Treasury appointed a young Baltimore lawyer as the official U.S. Censor. One of the new censor’s first acts was to place Tropic of Cancer on the list of books prohibited from importation into the United States. Thus began one of the most extraordinary and long relationships in American literary history.

Miller had been writing novels since , but his first three efforts, written primarily while he was living in Brooklyn and New York, had not been accepted for publication, and he regarded them as failures. In , at the urging of his second wife June Mansfield, Miller moved to Paris in a desperate bid to find himself as a writer. Miller lived a hand-to-mouth existence on the streets of Paris, consorting with prostitutes and other expatriate artists he met in cafés, and surviving on their generosity. In , he began transforming these experiences into what he called his “Paris book,”

Comentario sobre un jusfilósofo norteamericano del siglo XX

Huntington Cairns es un casi olvidado filósofo del derecho, norteamericano, que descolló como pensador a mediados del siglo XX, siendo su principal obra titulada “Legal philosophy from Plato to Hegel”.

Cairns no solo fue jusfilósofo, sino que estuvo vinculado a las bellas artes por muchos años, desde su puesto en Washington de Consejero y Secretario de la National Gallery of Art. Su formación humanística lo relacionó con el filósofo católico Jacques Maritain y su pensamiento fue crítico del positivismo y orientado al reconocimiento del derecho natural.

Books by Huntington Cairns
The Limits of Art: A Critic's Anthology of Western Literature
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The Limits of Art: Poetry and Prose Chosen by Ancient and Modern Critics, Vol. 1: From Homer to Chaucer
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Legal Philosophy from Plato to Hegel
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Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art
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THE LIMITS OF ART: Poetry and Prose Chosen by Ancient and Modern Critics, Bollingen Series XII
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This Other Eden
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Shakespeare's herbs in the Elizabethan Gardens on Roanoke Island, North Carolina
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The Limits of Art: From Homer to Chaucer, From Villon to Gibbon, From Goethe to Joyce (3 volumes)
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Legal philosophy from Plato to Hegel
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Huntington Cairns Edit Profile
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Huntington Cairns, American lawyer, author. Bar: Maryland , District of Columbia Benjamin N. Cardozo lecturer, ; John Randolph Tucker lecturer, ; Recipient Civic medallion for most significant contribution to progress of Baltimore in field professions and science, , Rockefeller Public Service award.
Background
Cairns, Huntington was born on September 1, in Baltimore. Son of James Duncanson and Helen Huntington (Heath) Cairns.
Education
Graduate, Baltimore City College, Bachelor of Laws, University Maryland, Doctor of Laws, New York University.

Doctor of Laws, St. Andrews University. Doctor of Laws, Johns Hopkins. Doctor of Laws, University Maryland.

Doctor of Humane Letters, Tulane University. Doctor of Humane Letters, Kenyon College.
Career
Associate, Piper, Carey & Hall, ; partner, Piper, Carey & Hall, ; special legal adviser, United States Treasury Department, , Lecturer taxation U. Maryland. Law School,

Chairman radio program Invitation to Learning, Assistant general counsel United States Treasury, Member commission on practice Treasury Department,

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