Ranters run amok
and other adventures in the history of the law
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Word Count
59,750 words, Guess
Page Count
239 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL49554M
- ISBN-101566632773
- OCLC Control Number42643361
- OCLC Control Numberrantersrunamokot0000levy
- Library of Congress Control Number99052807
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- Goodreads1609736
- LibraryThing4807186
Classifications
- DDC342.73/029
- LCCKF4541 .L385 2000
Description
"Leonard Levy, in Ranters Run Amok, collects eight of his most important essays of recent years. These explorations into the history of the law are at once an entertainment and an education.". "Mr. Levy begins with a long essay on the Ranters, the ornery radicals who confronted the state and repudiated the moral law in mid-seventeenth-century England. He continues with anecdotes about Supreme Court justices and - a highlight of the book - a behind-the-scenes account of the deliberation over the Pulitzer Prizes in history. His chronicles of a long debate with Harvard University Press over the publication of his book on blasphemy is both eye-opening and confounding. He concludes with essays on the origins of the Fourth Amendment; on the critics of his prizewinning study of the Fifth Amendment; and on Lemuel Shaw, chief justice of Massachusetts from 1830 to 1860, whom Mr. Levy calls America's greatest magistrate."--BOOK JACKET.
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