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One L
The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
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- On Sale
- Dec 28, 2010
- Page Count
- 304 pages
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- ISBN-13
- 9780143119029
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One L, Scott Turow’s journal of his first year at law school 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.
It was a year of terrors and triumphs, of depressions and elations, of compulsive work, pitiless competition, and, finally, mass hysteria. It was Scott Turow’s first year at the oldest, biggest, most esteemed center of legal education in the United States. Turow’s experiences at Harvard Law School, where freshmen are dubbed One Ls, parallel those of first-year law students everywhere. His gripping account of this critical, formative year in the life of a lawyer is as suspenseful, said The New York Times, as “the most absorbing of thrillers.”
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