How can your name affect how well you do in life? What do estate agents and the Ku Klux Klan have in common? Why do drug dealers live with their mothers? The answer: Freakonomics. It’s at the heart of everything we do and the things that affect us daily: from sex to crime, parenting to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams. And we can use it to get to the heart of what’s really happening under the surface of everyday life.
From the Menendez brothers to Lorena Bobbitt, the criminal justice system is being swept up in a wave of abuse excuses. The author, a renowned defense attorney and the author of the #1 bestseller Chutzpah, looks at the numerous abuse excuses that are enabling people to get away with murder literally. In this provocative and important collection of essays, the author reviews a wide range of recent and famous court cases, including those of O.J. Simpson, Tonya Harding, and Woody Allen, and writes about the meaning of these cases for our legal system and society at large.
