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booklist
Click on a book title below to learn more about each title; some books have been
reviewed by Common Good staff.  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.
 A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting, Hara Marano
(Broadway, April 2008)
 No Fear: Growing Up in a Risk-averse Society, Tim Gill
(Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, October 2007)
 Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity, William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, Carl J. Schramm
(Yale University Press, May 22, 2007)
 The New American Story, Bill Bradley
(Random House, March 2007)
 Patriots and Cosmopolitans, John Fabian Witt
(Harvard University Press, February 2007)
 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)
 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)
 Principles for a Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty With the Common Good, Richard A. Epstein
(Perseus, September 2003)
 Democracy By Decree: What Happens When Courts Run Government, Ross Sandler & David Schoenbrod
(Yale, January 2003)
 The Collapse of the Common Good: How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines Our Freedom, Philip K. Howard
(Ballantine Books, January 2002)
 One Nation, After All, Alan Wolfe
(Penguin Books, March 1999)
 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)
 Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse, Mary Ann Glendon
(Free Press, July 1993)
 Liability: The Legal Revolution and its Consequences, Peter Huber
(Basic Books, July 1990)
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