Title
Success Without Victory : Lost Legal Battles and the Long Road to Justice in America / Jules Lobel.
ISBN
9780814752814
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2004]
Copyright
©2004
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814752814.001.0001 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
349.73
Summary
Winners and losers. Success and failure. Victory and defeat. American culture places an extremely high premium on success, and firmly equates it with winning. In politics, sports, business, and the courtroom, we have a passion to win and are terrified of losing.Instead of viewing success and failure through such a rigid lens, Jules Lobel suggests that we move past the winner-take-all model and learn valuable lessons from legal and political activists who have advocated causes destined to lose in court but have had important, progressive long term effects on American society. He leads us through dramatic battles in American legal history, describing attempts by abolitionist lawyers to free fugitive slaves through the courts, Susan B. Anthony's trial for voting illegally, the post-Civil War challenges to segregation that resulted in the courts' affirmation of the separate but equal doctrine in Plessy v. Ferguson, and Lobel's own challenges to United States foreign policy during the 1980s and 1990s. Success Without Victory explores the political, social, and psychological contexts behind the cases themselves, as well as the eras from which they originated and the eras they subsequently influenced.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
System Details Note
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
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Series
Critical America ; ; 70
Available in Other Form
print 9780814751121
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Losers, Fools, and Prophets
2 Can Law Stop War? The Constitution and Iraq
3 ATradition of Resistance: Antislavery Litigators and the Fight for Freedom
4 "A Fine Agitation": Women's Suffrage Goes to Court
5 Plessy v. Ferguson: The Fool's Last Battle
6 Plant-Closing Litigation: "Youngstown Sure Died Hard"
7 Politics versus Law: Were Travelers to Cuba Trading with the Enemy?
8 Challenging United States Intervention in Central America
9 End of an Era: Fighting U.S. Action in Kosovo
10 Conclusion
Notes
Index
Series List
About the Author
