booklist
Welcome to Common Good's comprehensive booklist. To see our booklist for a specific
subject area, visit our Schools Booklist, Health Care Booklist, or Society Booklist.  Books by CG Chair Philip K. Howard
Read The Collapse of the Common Good: How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines our Freedom, by CG Chair Philip K. Howard. Also check out his national bestseller, The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America.
 Remove Child Before Folding: The 101 Stupidest, Silliest, and Wackiest Warning Labels Ever, Bob Dorigo Jones
(Warner Books, January 4, 2007)
 Beyond A Reasonable Doubt: Letters and Essays from the Famous and Infamous on the Definition of Guilt in America's Courtrooms, Larry King
(Phoenix Books, November 1, 2006)
 Targeting in Social Programs, Peter H. Schuck and Richard J. Zeckhauser
(Brookings Institution Press, November 1, 2006)
 Last Child in the Woods : Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, Richard Louv
(Algonquin Books, April 15, 2005)
 The Rule of Lawyers: How the New Litigation Elite Threatens America's Rule of Law, Walter Olson
(St. Martin's Griffin, June 2004)
 Common Sense School Reform, Frederick M. Hess
(Palgrave Macmillan, April 2004)
 Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes, Robert Wachter and Kaveh Shojania
(Rugged Land, February 2004)
 No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning, Stephan and Abigail Thernstrom
(Simon & Schuster, October 2003)
 Punitive Damages: How Juries Decide, Cass R. Sunstein, et al
(University of Chicago, October 2003)
 You Can't Say That: The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws, David E. Bernstein
(Cato Institute, October 2003)
 Adversarial Legalism: The American Way of Law, Robert Kagan
(Harvard, September 2003)
 Brief Intervals of Horrible Sanity, Elizabeth Gold
(Jeremy P. Tarcher, September 2003)
 Making Schools Work: A Revolutionary Plan to Get Your Children the Education They Need, Bill Ouchi and Lydia Segal
(Simon & Schuster, September 2003)
 Principles for a Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty With the Common Good, Richard A. Epstein
(Perseus, September 2003)
 Making Good Citizens: Education and Civil Society, Edited by Diane Ravitch and Joseph P. Viteritti
(Yale, August 2003)
 The Brave New World of Health Care, Richard D. Lamm
(Fulcrum, August 2003)
 Wall of Silence: The Untold Story of the Medical Mistakes that Kill and Injure Millions of Americans, Rosemary Gibson and Janardan Prasad Singh
(Lifeline, May 2003)
 Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science, Atul Gawande
(Picador, April 2003)
 The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn, Diane Ravitch
(Knopf, April 2003)
 Our Schools & Our Future ...are we still at risk?, Edited by Paul E. Peterson
(Hoover Institution, February 2003)
 The Worm in the Apple: How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education, Peter Brimelow
(HarperCollins, February 2003)
 Democracy By Decree: What Happens When Courts Run Government, Ross Sandler & David Schoenbrod
(Yale, January 2003)
 Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Authority, Richard Arum
(Harvard, January 2003)
 Breaking Free, Sol Stern
(Encounter Books, September 2002)
 Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for Improvement, Anthony S. Bryk & Barbara Schneider
(Russell Sage Foundation, August 2002)
 The Silent World of Doctor and Patient, Jay Katz
(Johns Hopkins, June 2002)
 School Accountability, Edited by Williamson M. Evers and Herbert J. Walberg
(Hoover Institution, June 2002)
 The Collapse of the Common Good: How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines Our Freedom, Philip K. Howard
(Ballantine Books, January 2002)
 Cases on Medical Malpractice in Comparative Perspective, Tort and Insurance Law Vol. 1, Edited by Michael Faure and Helmut Koziol
(Spinger-Verlag/Wien, December 2001)
 City Schools: Lessons from New York, Edited by Diane Ravitch and Joseph Viteritti
(Johns Hopkins, June 2000)
 One Nation, After All, Alan Wolfe
(Penguin Books, March 1999)
 Our Hands Are Tied: Legal Tensions and Medical Ethics, Marshall Kapp
(Auburn House, May 1998)
 The World We Created at Hamilton High, Gerald Grant
(Harvard, April 1998)
 The Youth Charter: How Communities Can Work Together to Raise Standards for All Our Children, William Damon
(Free Press, November 1997)
 The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America, Philip K. Howard
(Warner Books, March 1996)
 America Goes to School: Law, Reform, and Crisis in Public Education, Robert M. Hardaway
(Praeger, April 1995)
 Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse, Mary Ann Glendon
(Free Press, July 1993)
 Medical Malpractice on Trial, Paul C. Weiler
(Harvard, April 1991)
 Liability: The Legal Revolution and its Consequences, Peter Huber
(Basic Books, July 1990)
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