Success Without Victory : : Lost Legal Battles and the Long Road to Justice in America / / Jules Lobel.
Winners and losers. Success and failure. Victory and defeat. American culture places an extremely high premium on success, and firmly equates it with winning. In politics, sports, business, and the courtroom, we have a passion to win and are terrified of losing.Instead of viewing success and failure...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2004] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical America ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Losers, Fools, and Prophets
- 2 Can Law Stop War? The Constitution and Iraq
- 3 ATradition of Resistance: Antislavery Litigators and the Fight for Freedom
- 4 “A Fine Agitation”: Women’s Suffrage Goes to Court
- 5 Plessy v. Ferguson: The Fool’s Last Battle
- 6 Plant-Closing Litigation: “Youngstown Sure Died Hard”
- 7 Politics versus Law: Were Travelers to Cuba Trading with the Enemy?
- 8 Challenging United States Intervention in Central America
- 9 End of an Era: Fighting U.S. Action in Kosovo
- 10 Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Series List
- About the Author