Book--Stewards of Democracy - New Perspectives on Law, Culture & Society

This is a special book. Professor Carrington is looking at the larger role lawyers play in American history. The book is new, never read. Jacket price is $32.

Carrington, who teaches at Duke University Law School and has served as a legal advisor to the federal government, is attuned to the continuity between education, philosophy, and the legal profession. He's also attuned to the impact of that continuity on the larger social and political order and focuses his book on the role of lawyers in U.S. political history. Despite popular dislike of lawyers, Carrington's own faith in the profession is "redeemed when lawyers and judges subordinate their own political preferences to those expressed by the institutions of representative self-government." In this regard, he focuses on some of the giants of the profession: Thomas M. Cooley, Louis D. Brandeis, Ernst Freund, Learned Hand, and Byron White. These were men who were aware of their public responsibilities and could mediate the interests of the democratic majority and the monied class, and/or other minorities, with a non-self-interested bias toward the public good.

Hardcover. 306 pages. 1999. Westview Press.

Book-Stewards of Democracy
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