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  • Published: 12 October 2004
  • ISBN: 9780812972856
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $49.99
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Law in America

A Short History





For lawyers, law students, and lovers of history alike, a masterful book that decodes what the law has really meant over America's history.

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’s art, its brevity a testament to the great elegance and wit of its composition.

  • Published: 12 October 2004
  • ISBN: 9780812972856
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $49.99
Categories:

Praise for Law in America

"Law in America is much more than a summary of Law's Greatest Hits. Friedman has deftly distilled 225 years of jurisprudence into a coherent, trenchant explanation of how American law has evolved."--Washington Post

"The small book is a persuasive account of how culture produces law....Friedman never shoehorns fact into theory."--The New York Times Book Review