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Practical Equality: Forging Justice in a Divided Nation
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Equality is easy to grasp in theory but often hard to achieve in reality. In this accessible and wide-ranging work, American University law professor Robert L. Tsai offers a stirring account of how legal ideas that aren’t necessarily about equality at all—ensuring fair play, behaving reasonably, avoiding cruelty, and protecting free speech—have often been used to overcome
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Hardcover, 288 pages
Published
February 19th 2019
by W. W. Norton Company
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3.5*
Hard to rate, because I thought this was good in ways and a bit dull in others. Liked the examples and how they were used to express points and show Tsai's approach or aim in how practical egalitarianism has been/can/should be used. Thought it wandered a bit in aim and lost my attention at times. ...more
Hard to rate, because I thought this was good in ways and a bit dull in others. Liked the examples and how they were used to express points and show Tsai's approach or aim in how practical egalitarianism has been/can/should be used. Thought it wandered a bit in aim and lost my attention at times. ...more

Tsai eloquently explains that overcoming injustices and achieving inequality is a long, arduous road full of pitfalls and promise. Accessible, provocative, and revealing.

I was paranoid I would need a renewal but I decided against it tonight. It had been difficult for me to contemplate, not for legal reasons, but for inter-racial marital reasons, which Robert Tsai described within this text with examples. The rationale I'm using is that I really don't want to explain why not or what's going on with me. I was just reading about privacy on the Internet with the last book I reviewed: Computer Privacy Annoyances.
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Robert L. Tsai is professor of law at American University. He is the author of three books: Practical Equality, America’s Forgotten Constitutions, and Eloquence and Reason. Practical Equality is a call to arms to do the hard work of equality, brimming with historical lessons for how to make social progress in tough times. America’s Forgotten Constitutions, which explores how citizens have written
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