The Morality of Consent

Bickel, Alexander M.

ISBN 10: 0300021194 / ISBN 13: 9780300021196

Published by YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1977

The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing. Seller Inventory # BSM.1BT1M

Synopsis:

"This short but provocative volume... is a fitting testimony to the author's extraordinary though tragically brief career as a constitutional scholar lawyer and teacher. In just a hundred and a half literate pages we are treated to vintage Bickel insight into every major political issue of the decade from the civil rights movement to the Warren Court through the frenetic university upheavals and-inevitably-to Watergate.... A tapestry woven by a master of subtle color and texture."-Alan M. Dershowitz New York Times Book Review "Presents the core of [Bickel's] legal and political philosophy.... In the five essays that compose this volume Bickel explores the relationship between morality and law examining the role of the Constitution and Supreme Court in our political process the nature of citizenship the First Amendment civil disobedience and the moral authority of the intellectual.... All will be stimulated by Bickel's thoughtful message." -Perspective "[Bickel] wrote with astonishing clarity. It takes no legal training to understand his thinking about the law. Nor does it take a willingness to agree with him. All that's required of the reader of this important 'little' book is a concern that rivals Bickel's about the future of American society." -Newsweek "An illuminating often a moving book with all of Professor Bickel's rare ability to bring law to life in vivid words."-Anthony Lewis Alexander M. Bickel Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School taught at Yale from 1956 until his death in 1974.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Morality of Consent
Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Publication Date: 1977
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: good