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200 10$aSuccess without victory$b[electronic resource] $elost legal battles and the long road to justice in America /$fJules Lobel
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2003
215   $a1 online resource (331 p.)
225 1 $aCritical America
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 271-307) and index.
327   $aIntroduction: losers, fools, and prophets -- Can law stop war? The Constitution and Iraq -- A tradition of resistance : anti-slavery litigators and the fight for freedom -- "A fine agitation" : women's suffrage goes to court -- Plessy v. Ferguson : the fool's last battle -- Plant closing litigation : "Youngstown sure died hard" -- Politics versus law : were travelers to Cuba trading with the enemy? -- Challenging United States intervention in Central America -- End of an era: fighting U.S. action in Kosovo.
330   $aWinners 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 throu
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