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Events- NEW YORK, NY: Author Thomas Geoghegan in Conversation with Hendrik Hertzberg
Sep 28, 2010, @7:00pm
Entertaining . . . breezy. . . . The essential charm of Geoghegan’s writing is his honest, self-deprecatory style.
—THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY
Good fun . . . [Geoghegan’s] a sharp thinker. . . . See You in Court makes a good case that deregulation has damaged the justice system in many ways.
—CHICAGO READER
See You in Court
How the Right Made America a Lawsuit Nation
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$17.95 / £10.99
NOW IN PAPERBACK — A Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of 2007—a bold new argument that conservative policy has led to America's lawsuit culture, from the National Books Critics Circle Award finalist
Charming. . . . Ambitious . . . eminently readable.
—ADAM LIPTAK, THE NEW YORK TIMES
—ADAM LIPTAK, THE NEW YORK TIMES
While just about everyone agrees that we’ve become a lawsuit nation, is it really class actions by a coterie of private trial lawyers whose enormous settlements and, in Karl Rove’s words, “junk lawsuits” that are subverting democracy? Thomas Geoghegan, whom Time called “a modern-day Quixote of the legal profession,” thinks not.
In this impassioned rebuttal to Philip K. Howard’s The Death of Common Sense, Geoghegan deftly shows how conservatives’ dismantling of America’s postwar legal system opened the floodgates of litigation. Most often people sue, he argues, because of what they have lost—contract rights, pensions, health insurance, decent medical care, and strong unions. Without these methods of preempting and resolving disputes, Americans who face injury, bankruptcy, discrimination, or injustice are left with no recourse but the lawsuit.
Both smart and provocative, See You in Court shows why the right is wrong about the source of our lawsuit culture and points the way back to civil society.
Thomas Geoghegan is a practicing attorney and the author of several books, including Which Side Are You On?, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and received a special citation from the PEN/Martha Albrand Award judges. Geoghegan contributes regularly to the American Prospect and lives in Chicago.
In this impassioned rebuttal to Philip K. Howard’s The Death of Common Sense, Geoghegan deftly shows how conservatives’ dismantling of America’s postwar legal system opened the floodgates of litigation. Most often people sue, he argues, because of what they have lost—contract rights, pensions, health insurance, decent medical care, and strong unions. Without these methods of preempting and resolving disputes, Americans who face injury, bankruptcy, discrimination, or injustice are left with no recourse but the lawsuit.
Both smart and provocative, See You in Court shows why the right is wrong about the source of our lawsuit culture and points the way back to civil society.
Thomas Geoghegan is a practicing attorney and the author of several books, including Which Side Are You On?, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and received a special citation from the PEN/Martha Albrand Award judges. Geoghegan contributes regularly to the American Prospect and lives in Chicago.
Fall 2008
paperback
5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 256 pages
978-1-59558-410-6
paperback
5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 256 pages
978-1-59558-410-6
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