The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America (Paperback)

Author: Philip K. Howard
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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780446672283
Publisher: Warner Books
Publish Date: 3/1/1996
Buy.com Sku: 30069448
Item#: RX6PP3
Dimensions (in Inches) 8.25H x 5.5L x 0.75T
 
This concise and eloquent manifesto shows how the excess of government regulations does not protect Americans but instead acts as legal quicksand, stifling growth and creating paralyzing overbureaucratization. Using blood-boiling examples of government regulations run amok, Howard reveals a society in which rules have replaced thinking--allowing law to infiltrate the nooks and crannies of everyday life.
 
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A lawyer decries the proliferation of laws in our society.

 

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New York Times Book Review
"'The Death of Common Sense' is a reflection of a mood rather than a sustained argument, but it sets the right mood. When we think about 'reinventing government,' it's a good place to start." - Cass R. Sunstein 2/12/95

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"A blood-boiler. One of the most important and thought-provoking books I've read in years." - Andrew Tobias

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"Eloquent. A brilliant diagnosis, forceful, trenchant and well-written." - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

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"As important as any book I've read since the Bible." - Lawton Chiles

Wall Street Journal
"The delights of this policy prose poem lie in its perfect details, its civilized tone, its sure sense of where the ill-made legal shoe pinches the citizen's foot." - Walter Olson 3/31/95


  
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