The paper chase
A best-selling book and award-winning film and television series, THE PAPER CHASE is at its heart the story of a young Midwesterner, James Hart, who finds himself in the great classrooms of Langdell Hall at Harvard Law School, locked in a zero-sum game with a dominating, omniscient deity: Professor...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Francisco :
Peninsula Road Press,
2011.
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| Edition: | 40th anniversary ed. |
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| Summary: | A best-selling book and award-winning film and television series, THE PAPER CHASE is at its heart the story of a young Midwesterner, James Hart, who finds himself in the great classrooms of Langdell Hall at Harvard Law School, locked in a zero-sum game with a dominating, omniscient deity: Professor Kingsfield, who asks not just for the student's mind, but for his soul. You quail at the exams, exult when you know the answers, love-hate Professor Kingsfield. It is also a love story that is as contemporary today as it was when the book was written, of a boy from the Midwest and a mysterious and demanding professor's daughter, who refuses to accept accepted wisdom or role models and demands from Hart a love that transcends law school and conventional norms. |
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| Physical Description: | [12], 180 pages ; 19 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780983698005 0983698007 |
| Author Notes: | In his career, he was a clerk for Judge Max Rosenn of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1970-1972) and an associate attorney in the firm Patterson Belknap Webb and Tyler. He taught law at the University of Miami, the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, the UC Berkeley School of Law, and the University of San Francisco School of Law. He retired in 2018. His most popular novels include The Paper Chase (1971). It was made into a film and a television series. The Associates (1979) was his third novel. It was made into a television series. His other novels include The Only Thing I've Done Wrong (1977), The Man Who Owned New York (1981), and Listen to the Marriage (1988). John Jay Osborn, Jr. died on October 19, 2022, in San Francisco, California, from cancer. He was 77. (Bowker Author Biography) |
