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1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 57 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin family lectures.
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Stephen R. Thorne. |
| Summary |
"There is not a single American awake to the world who is comfortable with the way things are." So begins Lawrence Lessig's sweeping indictment of contemporary American institutions and the corruption that besets them. We can all see it-from the selling of Congress to special interests to the corporate capture of the academy. Something is wrong. It's getting worse. What Lessig shows, brilliantly and persuasively, is that we can't blame the problems of contemporary American life on bad people, as our discourse all too often tends to do. Rather, he explains, "We have allowed core institutions of America's economic, social, and political life to become corrupted. Not by evil souls, but by good souls. Not through crime, but through compromise." Through case studies of Congress, finance, the academy, the media, and the law, Lessig shows how institutions are drawn away from higher purposes and toward money, power, quick rewards-the first steps to corruption. America is on the wrong path. If we don't acknowledge our own part in that, and act now to change it, we will hand our children a less perfect union than we were given. It will be a long struggle. This book represents the first steps. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Corruption -- United States.
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Political corruption -- United States.
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Corruption -- United States -- Prevention.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
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| Added Author |
Thorne, Stephen R..
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781977359223 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1977359221 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12354017 |
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