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PublisherBasic Books

ISBN-100465016316

ISBN-139780465016310

eBay Product ID (ePID)1945739

Product Key Features

Book TitleLetters to a Young Lawyer

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLawyers & Judges, Essays

Publication Year2001

GenreBiography & Autobiography, Literary Collections

AuthorAlan Dershowitz

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight0.4 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2001-043298

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal340.092

SynopsisAs defender of both the righteous and the questionable, Alan Dershowitz has become perhaps the most famous and outspoken attorney in the land. Whether or not they agree with his legal tactics, most people would agree that he possesses a powerful and profound sense of justice. In this meditation on his profession, Dershowitz writes about life, law, and the opportunities that young lawyers have to do good and do well at the same time.We live in an age of growing dissatisfaction with law as a career, which ironically comes at a time of unprecedented wealth for many lawyers. Dershowitz addresses this paradox, as well as the uncomfortable reality of working hard for clients who are often without many redeeming qualities. He writes about the lure of money, fame, and power, as well as about the seduction of success. In the process, he conveys some of the "tricks of the trade" that have helped him win cases and become successful at the art and practice of "lawyering.", With wit, humor, and decades of personal experiences from which to draw, Alan Dershowitz dispenses advice on career, law, and life in a book aimed at those just starting out in the legal profession., "Alan Dershowitz found an important letter from his hero that relates to freedom of speech, incitement, and terrorism—subjects about which Alan has thought and taught for decades. This book is a wonderful adventure story that uses Jefferson's arguments and Dershowitz's counters to illuminate issues that were important and difficult when the U.S. was a new nation and that remain so today. I recommend it to every citizen concerned with preserving our liberties and combating terrorism." —President William Jefferson Clinton "The 1801 letter of Thomas Jefferson to Elijah Boardman is of tremendous interest and importance, as is the remarkable story of its discovery by Alan Dershowitz." —David McCullough Pulitzer Prize–winning author "Finding Jefferson is terrific on every level: as a memoir of a passionate collector, it is delightful; as an account of an important historical discovery, it is riveting; as a defense of free speech, it is brilliant." —Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln "What a treasure this book is, just like the stuff Dershowitz scours the old archives for. It is unexpected, revealing and resonant with a central fact of our Republic—we are still stitched together by words, and their complicated progeny, ideas. From a simple, fortuitous discovery, Dershowitz has fashioned an elaborate and engaging argument, one we will be thinking about for ages." —Ken Burns, director and producer of The War and Thomas Jefferson

LC Classification NumberKF373.D46A3 2001