The Essential Lenny Bruce Author:Lenny Bruce, John Cohen ed. Transcribed from hundreds of hours of taped performances, this book brings into print--many of them for the first time--his greatest satirical routines in their original, unexpurgated form. Here is Lenny Bruce on religion, sex, the fuzz, censorship, the Russians, pot, the Lone Ranger — --the whole wide gamut of a mind that punctured pretense with... more » uninhibited wit. "How to Talk Dirty and Influence People" was the story of his life. "The Essential Lenny Bruce" is the written record of his art.« less