Tale Strokes Why We Can't Have Nice Things: How Legal Reformers Accidentally Broke America by Nicholas Bagley

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Why We Can't Have Nice Things: How Legal Reformers Accidentally Broke America

by Nicholas Bagley

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THE SYNOPSIS

What this book is about

A provocative account of how our legal culture is holding us hostage—and what we need to do to change it. The American government is broken. The country that built the national highway system and created Social Security and Medicare can now barely manage the basics. What went wrong? University of Michigan Law professor Nicholas Bagley argues that America’s obsessively legalistic approach to governance—our “procedure fetish”—has strangled progress. Beginning in the late 1960s, reformers...

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