| Title:
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LOWERING THE BAR
LAWYER JOKES AND LEGAL CULTURE |
| By: |
Marc Galanter |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£39.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0299213501 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780299213503 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 October, 2005 |
| Pages: |
430 |
| Description: |
Analyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. Drawing on representation of law and lawyers in the mass media, political discourse, and public opinion surveys, this book explores the tensions between Americans' deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers. |
| Synopsis: |
What do you call 600 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Marc Galanter calls it an opportunity to investigate the meanings of a rich and time-honored genre of American humor: lawyer jokes. "Lowering the Bar" analyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to contemporary anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. Drawing on representations of law and lawyers in the mass media, political discourse, and public opinion surveys, Galanter finds that the increasing reliance on law has coexisted uneasily with anxiety about the "legalization" of society. Informative and always entertaining, his book explores the tensions between Americans' deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers. |
| Illustrations: |
59 b/w illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Wisconsin Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |