Success without victory : lost legal battles and the long road to justice in America /
"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, and long-ter...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2003]
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| Series: | Critical America.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | "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, and long-term effects on American society. He leads us through dramatic battles in American legal history, describing attempts by abolitionist lawyers to free fugitive slaves through the courts, Susan B. Anthony's trial for voting illegally, the post-Civil War challenges to segregation that resulted in the courts' affirmation of the separate but equal doctrine in Plessy v. Ferguson, and Lobel's own challenges to United States foreign policy during the 1980s and 1990s." "Success without Victory explores the political, social, and psychological contexts behind the cases themselves, as well as the eras from which they originated and the legal changes they subsequently influenced."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 321 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-307) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0814751121 9780814751121 |