Law in America
By Lawrence M. Friedman
By Lawrence M. Friedman
By Lawrence M. Friedman
By Lawrence M. Friedman
Part of Modern Library Chronicles
Part of Modern Library Chronicles
Category: Classic Nonfiction | U.S. History | World History
Category: Classic Nonfiction | U.S. History | World History
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Paperback $17.00
Oct 12, 2004 | ISBN 9780812972856
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Praise
“Law in America is a little gem. It is a peerless introduction to our legal history—concise, clear, tellingly told, and beautifully written. The greatest living historian of American law has done it again.”
—Stanley N. Katz,
former president of the American Society for Legal History and the Organization of American Historians
“All societies have laws, but neither all laws nor all legal systems are alike. No one has thought more deeply or written more clearly about the peculiar role of law in American life than Lawrence Friedman. In this trenchant, illuminating book, he distills a lifetime of scholarship and teaching into a concise and provocative explanation of the role that law has played in shaping the distinctive contours of American history and culture.”
—David M. Kennedy,
professor of history at Stanford University and author of Freedom from Fear
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