Title: Flawed Premise
Review: If you read this book, please also read Thomas Sowell's recent Quest for Cosmic Justice. Lemann spends this whole book trying to figure out how some undefined "we" (by which he means people of his own academic and cultural background) can arrange life and society so that money, power, prestige, etc. are distributed and redistributed "fairly" without ever defining what that is.This is a foolishe, authoritarian and doomed quest -- ultimately it leads to the Pol Pots of the world. Sowell's book explains the fatal flaw in this kind of arrogant reasoning.By the way, I went to law school with one of the principal characters in the book. She wasn't nearly as interesting, then or now, as the author tries to make her.
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