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Also by Thane Rosenbaum:

How Sweet It Is!, April 2015
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The Myth of Moral Justice, May 2005
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THE MYTH OF MORAL JUSTICE
By: Thane Rosenbaum

Why Our Legal System Fails to Do What's Right

Harper
May 2005
On Sale: May 2, 2005
384 pages
ISBN: 0060735244
EAN: 9780060735241
Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction

We are obsessed with watching television shows and feature films about lawyers, reading legal thrillers, and following real-life trials. Yet, at the same time, most of us don't trust lawyers and hold them and the legal system in very low esteem.

In The Myth of Moral Justice, law professor and novelist Thane Rosenbaum suggests that this paradox stems from the fact that citizens and the courts are at odds when it comes to their definitions of justice. With a lawyer's expertise and a novelist's sensability, Rosenbaum tackles complicated philosophical questions about our longing for moral justice. He also takes a critical look at what our legal system does to the spirits of those who must come before the law, along with those who practice within it.

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Talk of the Nation - August 30, 2006