Law in America
Author: Friedman, Lawrence M.
ISBN: 9780812972856
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 12 Oct 2004
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
For lawyers, law students, and lovers of history alike, a masterful book that decodes what the law has really meant over America's history.BR>BR>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. b>Law in America/b> is a supreme example of the historian's art, its brevity a testament to the great elegance and wit of its composition.
ISBN: 9780812972856
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 12 Oct 2004
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback / softback
For lawyers, law students, and lovers of history alike, a masterful book that decodes what the law has really meant over America's history.BR>BR>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. b>Law in America/b> is a supreme example of the historian's art, its brevity a testament to the great elegance and wit of its composition.
