American Law in the Twentieth Century FROM THE PUBLISHER
Named one of the best books of 2002 by the Los Angeles Times Book Review; winner of the Scribes Award for the best book on law written in 2002; selected by Choice as a 2003 Outstanding Academic Title; winner of AAP's 2002 PSP Award for Excellence in Professional/Scholarly Publishing in Law; winner of the David J. Langum, Sr., Prize in Legal History for 2002.
SYNOPSIS
"A readable and sophisticated account of what happened at the interface between American law and American society over the past century. . . . A useful guide to the social and political processes shaping American law."—Charles Lane, Washington Post Book World; "[This] enlightening guide to [America's] modern legal history . . . [is] stunning and definitive. . . . Each of Friedman's chapters is jampacked with information and perspective."—Edward Lazarus, Los Angeles Times Book Review; "This brilliant account is at once accessible to the layperson and indispensable to the specialist. A masterpiece."—Choice; "Captures brilliantly the broad social sweep of legal change during the twentieth century. . .. Masterful."-Cornell W. Clayton, American Historical Review
Author Biography: Lawrence M. Friedman is Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law at Stanford University. His previous books include A History of American Law and Crime and Punishment in American History, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history.
Named one of the best books of 2002 by the Los Angeles Times Book Review; Selected by Choice as a 2003 Outstanding Academic Title; Winner of AAP's 2002 PSP Award for Excellence in Professional/Scholarly Publishing in Law; Winner of the Scribes Award for the best book on law written in 2002
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