{"product_id":"lowering-the-bar-marc-galanter-9780299213541","title":"Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes and Legal Culture","description":"What do you call 600 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Marc Galanter calls it an opportunity to investigate the meanings of a rich and time-honored genre of American humor: lawyer jokes. \u003ci\u003eLowering the Bar\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to contemporary anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. Drawing on representations of law and lawyers in the mass media, political discourse, and public opinion surveys, Galanter finds that the increasing reliance on law has coexisted uneasily with anxiety about the \"legalization\" of society. Informative and always entertaining, his book explores the tensions between Americans' deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marc Galanter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0299213544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780299213541\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Wisconsin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/08\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 7.02w x 0.94d","brand":"Marc Galanter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994825064703,"sku":"9780299213541","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0666ddc9-9a80-4df8-8da6-74b37dc7df26.jpg?v=1683332397","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lowering-the-bar-marc-galanter-9780299213541","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}