Nation Of Adversaries: HOW THE LITIGATION EXPLOSION IS RESHAPING AMERICA (Hardcover)

by PATRICK M. GARRY (Author)

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Legal and constitutional scholar Garry examines America's adversarial culture. Far too many of us, he argues, are always on the lookout for some actionable offense no matter how minor. As a nation, we feel ourselves entitled to whatever settlement we can wrest from a plaintiff because of a growing sense of victimhood. We figure we are owed. America's declining social and personal values are one factor here, although Garry also documents a legal profession bent on litigation because it is so lucrative. He also lays blame on a media apparatus that treats court cases like sporting events, where the point isn't truth but who's winning. Depressingly accurate, although one wonders why Garry's analysis left out some very central players: corporations and organizations that won't do the right thing, making litigation or the threat of it about the only way to achieve some sort of justice. Brian McCombie

• Hardcover: 218 pages
• Publisher: Plenum Press; 1 edition (1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0306455641
• ISBN-13: 978-0306455643
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 6.2 x 1 inches
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