Test Pattern for Living - Softcover

Johnson, Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1304064816 ISBN 13: 9781304064813

Publisher: Lulu.com, 2013

Synopsis

Test Pattern for Living is a kind of guidebook for anyone thinking about what they are doing with their life and why -- whether happy and wanting to stay that way, or working their way through one of life's many stresses. As such it touches on everything from camping to cooking, from religious values to the values of corporate advertising, the role of love and sexuality, and many, many more subjects. It leaves you making your own choices. But it frees you to ask what other choices you might have made if corporate media hadn't spent billions of dollars trying to persuade you to make the choices that maximize their profits.

About this title

About the Author:

There are many wonderful Nicholas Johnsons. This one is best known as the only former Federal Communications Commission commissioner to have both graced the cover of the Rolling Stone magazine and turned down the opportunity to be a centerfold in Playgirl. 
 
He's been a TV show host, columnist, congressional candidate, Washington lawyer, law professor, and school board member, among other things. A former Supreme Court law clerk (Justice Hugo Black), included in The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law as one of 700 individuals described by the publisher as "leading figures in the history of American law, from the colonial era to the present day," he is now retired from teaching at the University of Iowa College of Law.

Review:

"The greatest security problems for a nation are the hostility and frustration of its own citizens. Johnson's Test Pattern for Living might just reduce a bit of that 'hostility and frustration.'"-- Chicago Daily News."[A]n eloquent book. In the 'new journalism' style, he tells how and why he is personally pursuing a life which will not be influenced by Big Business, Big Broadcasting or Big Government, and suggests how others can do it, too." -- Publishers Weekly."In Washington in general, it is difficult not to regard Johnson as a superstar, one of our few friends. -- Rolling Stone."One does not have to buy every trinket in Johnson's bag to appreciate the eloquence and deeply personal commentary of this provocative book." -- Chicago Tribune."Through an unusual facing-page format, he counters his text with quotations . . . from representatives of contemporary life." -- Army Times."I wish all my . . . classmates at Harvard Law School would read [it], . . . a lot of them are as uncertain about their choice of lifestyle as I am. --Harvard Law Record

About this edition

• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1304064816
• ISBN 13: 9781304064813
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 189