Lowering the bar : lawyer jokes and legal culture
Analyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to contemporary anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. This book explores the tensions between American's deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers.
Print Book, Undefined, 2005
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison WI, 2005
xvii, 429 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
9780299213541, 0299213544
1000569686
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