Test Pattern for Living

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.

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.