This undated file photo, released by the National Book Foundation, shows Barney Rosset. (AP Photo/Rosset Archives, National Book Foundation, file) 

First Amendment crusader Rosset dies

Barney Rosset, the fiery and fearless publisher who introduced the country to countless political and avant-garde writers and risked prison and financial ruin to release such underground classics as "Tropic of Cancer" and "Lady Chatterley's Lover," has died.

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