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$14.00Borges who never wrote a novel shows why doing so was irrelevant with this mind bending collection of short “fictions.’ His works exhibit more vitality in 7 pages than many authors do in 300 with topics ranging from the ethics of espionage to mirrors and labyrinths and knife fights in the countryside of southern Argentina. This is literary athleticism at its finest. For a brief but mesmerizing read try either “Funes, the Memorious” of “The Garden of Forking Paths.”
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Vroman's Bookstore and Caltech present Barry Friedman, author of The Will of the People
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- Hameetman Room at Caltech
- Additional:
- 1216 E Califronia Boulevard
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- Pasadena ,
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- California
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- 91101
- Country:
- United States
With the recent confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, the relationship between the American public and the Supreme Court is once again on the front burner. In The Will of the People, Friedman challenges the notion that Supreme Court judges do not face accountability for their decisions since they hold their office for life and are appointed rather than face election. He argues that the Court, which has ruled definitively on such issues as abortion, school prayer, and military tribunals in the War on Terror, has always been subject to a higher power: the American public. Friedman will be joined in conversation about his book by Edward J. McCaffery. McCaffery is the Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law
Professor of Law, Economics and Political Science and Visiting Professor of Law and Economics at the California Institute of Technology.
This event is free and open to the public.
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