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A History of American Law, Revised Edition (A Touchstone Book)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 349.7309
EAN: 9780671528072
Edition: 2nd
ISBN: 0671528076
Label: Touchstone
Manufacturer: Touchstone
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 784
Publication Date: January 21, 1986
Publisher: Touchstone
Studio: Touchstone
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Editorial Review: A History of American Law has become a classic for students of law, American history and sociology across the country. In this brilliant and immensely readable book, Lawrence M. Friedman tells the whole fascinating story of American law from its beginnings in the colonies to the present day. By showing how close the life of the law is to the economic and political life of the country, he makes a complex subject understandable and engrossing. A History of American Law presents the achievements and failures of the American legal system in the context of America's commercial and working world, family practices and attitudes toward property, slavery, government, crime and justice.
Now Professor Friedman has completely revised and enlarged his landmark work, incorporating a great deal of new material. The book contains newly expanded notes, a bibliography and a bibliographical essay.
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Rating:  - Highly recommended
Dr. Friedman's book is really quite brilliantly written. It is easy to identify his argument in each section, and it is very well supported. The book is structured in a way that makes his findings highly memorable, and he draws from a variety of interesting sources. I took his class at Stanford Law School this past semester, and this was part of the required reading - and for good reason!
Rating: - Mixed feelings
Though I have some reservations, I give this tome four stars, mainly because I do not want to discourage anyone from buying it, seeming as it does to have no better rival on the market.
But perhaps my criticisms are only petty: for one, I found the author's near-total neglect of the law vis-à-vis Native Americans an egregious oversight; for another, his increasing catankerousness as the book progressed put me off some; also, his occasional facetiousness was, at least for me, disproportionately ... Read More
Rating: - The Best Starting Point there Is
I read this book prior to starting law school. It is the best introduction to the history of American law, and to the law in general. Too many lawyers look at law as a trade, and have no perspective into why or how the law has developed and evolved as it has. This hefty volume goes a long way to remedy that shortcoming. In spite of its academic rigor, it is very readable and clear.
Rating: - A landmark achievement
When Lawrence M. Friedman wrote his landmark "A History of American Law," he remarked that American legal history has been a neglected field. The United States, he noted, has no work of legal history comparable to Holdsworth's monumental "History of English Law." Friedman was right about our neglect of American legal history, and his attempt to remedy that neglect by writing his History remains the most authoritative history of American law. Friedman's History is not only authoritative, however. ... Read More
Rating:  - Government Knows Better Than You
Industrialists are evil. Juries are misguided simpletons. These are the beliefs that run through Professor Friedman's History of American Law. But fear not, government will save us all.
If you keep in mind his bias, you will find the book a thorough overview of the development of American law.
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