(Mobile book) Legally Speaking: Contemporary American Culture and the Law
♥ Helle Porsdam ♥
| #4920149 in Books | Univ of Massachusetts Pr | 1999-07-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.93 x.85 x6.04l,.96 | File Name: 1558492089 | 240 pages |
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| A persuasive case|By Jeff Bursey|In this book, Ms Porsdam attempts a difficult task: writing about aspects of the law in united states culture without being tiresome, overly technical, or shallow. She discusses the role (and rule) of law in the following areas: united states exceptionalism, literary works (Tom Wolfe, William Gaddis, Scott Turow, Margaret Atwood, Sara Paretsky||"This is an innovative and engaging study exploring the pervasive influence of law in the shaping of contemporary American culture. It is a strikingly original piece of work for which no comparable models exist. Porsdam displays an impressive mastery of relev
Since the founding of the republic, the law has come to make itself felt at every level of American society. Indeed, as Helle Porsdam argues, in a country with no monarchy or hereditary aristocracy and no established church, the law has become America's "civil religion," helping to form a collective national identity. According to Porsdam, what is distinctive about the role of law in the United States is not simply the prevalence of legal language and practice in everyd...
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