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Liberating Americans From Too Much Law
W. W. Norton
January 2009
On Sale: January 12, 2009
224 pages
ISBN: 0393065669
EAN: 9780393065664
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
How to restore the can-do spirit that made America great,
from the author of the best-selling The Death of Common
Sense.Americans are losing the freedom to make sense of
daily choices—teachers can't maintain order in the
classroom, managers are trained to avoid candor, schools ban
the game of tag, and companies plaster inane warnings on
everything: "Remove Baby Before Folding Stroller." Philip K. Howard's urgent and elegant argument is full of
examples, often darkly humorous. He describes the historical
and cultural forces that led to this mess, and he lays out
the basic shift in approach needed to fix it. Today we are flooded with rules and legal threats that
prevent us from taking responsibility and using our common
sense. We must rebuild boundaries of law that affirmatively
protect an open field of freedom. The stories here will ring
true to every reader. The analysis is powerful, and the
solution unavoidable. What's at stake, Howard explains in
this seminal book, is the vitality of American culture.
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