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Loading... One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law Schoolby Scott Turow
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I really enjoyed this book, one of several I've read about law school recently. While I have no interest in attending law school, I find reading about others' experience fascinating. While some things about law school seem to have changed in 30 years, others don't seem to have changed much based on more recent accounts that I've read. Like a Stanford MBA book I read, it 's also interesting to see how top tier is vs. other schools, though I've also read another Ivy law school in [Ivy League Briefs]. A good read, whether or not you're considering law school, it doesn't really show its age in terms of relevance. (  ) skinglist | Sep 4, 2009 |  1716 One L, by Scott Turow (read 20 May 1982) This is a 1977 book about the author's first year at Harvard Law. It is very readable, but it does not accurately reflect my first year at Georgetown . I checked my diary for 1950, and found the law did not overpower me--Washington did. Politics seemed to have far more attention than law those first months. But this book does capture some of the overpowering tension of law school, though my stolid peasant attitude never drove me to pills or a psychiatrist--as the author here almost was driven. A very intense book--I only wish the professors were not disguised, though I am sure everybody at Harvard knows who each was. (  ) Schmerguls | Nov 11, 2008 | One L first came to prominence in 1977, shortly after Turow finished his first year at Harvard Law School (H.L.S.). One L is not a novel. It’s memoir, though he’s changed names and amalgamated some of his classmates. It covers his first year at H.L.S. The image that appears is of a group of smart but very fragile people, including Turow himself. Another theme that appears to me is a very real sense I think carried over from the 1960s of rebellion against the status quo. They want to be challenged less and nurtured more. And yet, they mostly display the intensely competitive drive they profess to despise. (Full review at my blog) (  ) KingRat | Jun 16, 2008 | Advice if you are considering law school: 1. Don't do it. 2. Read this book. Number one and number two are completely unrelated. (  ) jonesjohnson | Apr 30, 2008 | At one time I wanted to attend law school, this book didn't deter me from attending... just found other plans. I loved, loved, loved this memoir of Scott Turow's time at Harvard Law. It is thoroughly interesting and entertaining to see him grow throughout that time. ( ) blueandgreen | Jul 3, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0446673781, Paperback)One L, Scott Turow's journal of his first year at law school introduces and a best-seller when it was first published in 1977, has gone on to become a virtual bible for prospective law students. Not only does it introduce with remarkable clarity the ideas and issues that are the stuff of legal education; it brings alive the anxiety and competiveness--with others and, even more, with oneself--that set the tone in this crucible of character building. Turow's multidimensional delving into his protagonists' psyches and his marvelous gift for suspense prefigure the achievements of his celebrated first novel, Presumed Innocent, one of the best-selling and most talked about books of 1987.Each September, a new crop of students enter Harvard Law School to begin an intense, often grueling, sometimes harrowing year of introduction to the law. Turow's group of One Ls are fresh, bright, ambitious, and more than a little daunting. Even more impressive are the faculty: Perini, the dazzling, combative professor of contracts, who presents himself as the students' antagonist in their struggle to master his subject; Zechman, the reserved professor of torts who seems so indecisive the students fear he cannot teach; and Nicky Morris, a young, appealing man who stressed the humanistic aspects of law.Will the One Ls survive? Will they excel? Will they make the Law Review, the outward and visible sign of success in this ultra-conservative microcosm? With remarkable insight into both his fellows and himself, Turow leads us through the ups and downs, the small triumphs and tragedies of the year, in an absorbing and throught-provoking narrative that teaches the reader not only about law school and the law but about the human beings who make them what they are.In the new afterword for this edition of One L, the author looks back on law school from the perspective of ten years' work as a lawyer and offers some suggestions for reforming legal education.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:22 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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