Law & Society Review, June 1st, 2004
American Adversarialism Herbert M. Kritzer Adversarial Legalism: The American Way of Law. By Robert A. Kagan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. 339 pp. Hardcover $49.95. ISBN: 0-674-00621-6.
Introduction
The idea that the United States stands apart from other countries and other cultures is deeply rooted in the American psyche. Americans seemingly take pride in being different, but so do people in many other countries: the French and the Japanese come immediately to mind. As discussed in books such as Seymour Martin Lipset's American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword (1996), ...
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