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The Betrayed Profession: Lawyering at the End of the Twentieth Century
by LINOWITZ, Sol M
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0684194163
- ISBN 13
- 9780684194165
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 273pp. Near fine/near fine. A tight and attractive first edition of this blistering attack on what the American legal profession has become over the past fifty years -- by one of its top practitioners. He boldly inscribes and signs the front flyleaf in green ink: "To / Bob Malott / With warmest / regards to a friend / and colleague who / searches for truth / and justice. / Sol M. Linowitz." Linowitz (1913-2005) was a top-level attorney, businessman and diplomat. Robert Malott (1926-2018) was a noted Chicago business leader, CEO of FMC Corporation, Republican politico and philanthropist.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45640
- Title
- The Betrayed Profession: Lawyering at the End of the Twentieth Century
- Author
- LINOWITZ, Sol M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0684194163
- ISBN 13
- 9780684194165
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Crime & Law;
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