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Success without victory : lost legal battles and the long road to justice in America /
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 failur...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2003.
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| Series: | Critical America.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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 through such a rigid lens, Jules Lobel suggests that we move past the winner-take-all model and learn valuable lessons from legal and political activists who have advocated causes destined to lose in court but have had important, progressive long term effects on American society. He leads us throu. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 321 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-307) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1417588292 9781417588299 9780814751121 0814751121 0814765122 9780814765128 0814752810 9780814752814 |