The Nonsense Factory: The Making and Breaking of the American Legal System - Hardcover

"[A] sweeping new study of America's legal system."--Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe "Law schools seeking a good overview could save themselves the trouble and just assign entering students [The Nonsense Factory].... A plain-English "wide-angle critique" of the legal system... Ambitious.... Non-lawyers and many attorneys, too, will certainly have a better sense of what ails our justice system after reading this book."--Washington Post "Monumental and hugely entertaining...smart, funny, incisive...."--"Good Law Bad Law" podcast with Aaron Freiwald "Really interesting book... stirring the pot." --The Young Turks "Gibney (A Generation of Sociopaths) boldly declares that these chaotic times have been long-developing in the legal realm.... A timely investigation of the 'Imperial Presidency' considers the history and dangers of executive power. Ultimately, Gibney calls for structural reform and corrective actions.... Civic-minded readers .... will enjoy this ambitious and wry polemic on America's legal system."--Library Journal "A diligent, carefully considered overview of the law and its many facets.... Gibney is an insurrectionist with a heavy mind but a light heart.... His overarching intellectual project is a deeply admirable, and indeed, a patriotic one. He's willing to take a little heat to get some new ideas out there, and he's willing to make a few enemies in the process. By applying his deeply agile mind to the seemingly intractable obstacles of our democracy, he implicitly and crucially demonstrates the belief that real solutions exist."--Lawyers, Guns, and Money "Gibney is ... often funny, and his criticisms are serious, well-argued, and provocative."--Publishers Weekly "A keen, lively deconstruction of the American legal system's seemingly countless flaws." --Kirkus Reviews "The Nonsense Factory is a provocative polemic on the sorry state of American law. Whether you chiefly blame the Supreme Court or Congress or law professors or We The People ourselves--and whether or not you buy into every count of his indictment--Gibney's book raises serious questions about how we govern ourselves."--David A. Kaplan, author of The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution