[DOWNLOAD] Law in America: A Short History (Modern Library Chronicles)
☆ Lawrence M. Friedman ☆
| #81977 in Books | Modern Library | 2004-10-12 | 2004-10-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.20 x.52 x5.20l,.39 | File Name: 0812972856 | 224 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Great quick read|By Jeff Wheat|This is a great book for a 'quick' but meaningful overview of the history of American law. It reads easily, but also offers some fresh insights which clearly come from the author instead of just recycling the same old tired opinions you'll find everywhere else. The bit on economic influence on the law I found particularly persuasive.|1 of 1 peop|.com |Although, in the eyes of many, the law "moves slowly and sluggishly" behind society's advances, Lawrence M. Friedman, in Law in America, a historical overview from colonial times to the present, posits that this is an "illusion." As surely as cult
Throughout America’s history, our laws have been a reflection of who we are, of what we value, of who has control. They embody our society’s genetic code. In the masterful hands of the subject’s greatest living historian, the story of the evolution of our laws serves to lay bare the deciding struggles over power and justice that have shaped this country from its birth pangs to the present. Law in America is a supreme example of the historian&rsq...
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