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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 300.72 EAN: 9780765804488 ISBN: 0765804484 Label: Transaction Publishers Manufacturer: Transaction Publishers Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 428 Publication Date: April 01, 1998 Publisher: Transaction Publishers Studio: Transaction Publishers Related Items:
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 Rating: - Heavy reading, but incredibly rewardingThis book was recommended to me by a friend, a retired lawyer, just a few years before he died. He was very well-read, moreso than you'd imagine a lawyer to be, and he used to rave about what an incredible book this had been. He was very much an intellectual, and this had been perhaps the most influential book in his intellectual life's journey. When I finally sat down with it, I understood why. Forgive me for using the word so often, but Kaplan, too, is (was?) an intellectual, and of ... Read More 
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