by Daniel J. Boorstin



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Referred to as the "bible of American lawyers," Blackstone's Commentaries
on the Laws of England shaped the principles of law in both England and
America when its first volume appeared in 1765. For the next century that
law remained what Blackstone made of it. Daniel J. Boorstin examines why
Commentaries became the most essential knowledge that any lawyer needed to
acquire. Set against the intellectual values of the eighteenth century-and
the notions of Reason, Nature, and the Sublime--Commentaries is at last
fitted into its social setting. Boorstin has provided a concise
intellectual history of the time, illustrating all the elegance, social
values, and internal contradictions of the Age of Reason.

Product Details

Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: University of Chicago Press (June 1, 1996)
ISBN: 0226064980