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Tyranny of the Majority: Funamental Fairness in Representative Democracy Paperback - 1995

by Lani Guinier; Foreword by Stephen L. Carter

Now available in paperback, The Tyranny of the Majority "highlights the distortion of Guinier's written record, clarifies and explains her creative approach to voting rights problems and open a crucial dialogue on race and democracy".--The Boston Globe.


From the publisher

At last...the public hearing she was denied...These essays reveal keen powers of analysis applied to some of the most obdurate problems that bedevil electoral politics. Anyone who cares about the mechanisms of democracy should be engaged by her tough-minded explorations. It doesn't matter where you think you stand: it's all here, to argue or agree with.
-- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Lani Guinier's fascinating book is a prophetic intervention into a public conversation we desperately need to rejuvenate. There is no doubt that her powerful voice will produce good consequences for our nation and world.
-- Cornel West, Author of Race Matters
Intriguing and desperately needed...
-- The San Francisco Chronicle

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I have always wanted to be a civil rights lawyer.

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  • Title Tyranny of the Majority: Funamental Fairness in Representative Democracy
  • Author Lani Guinier; Foreword by Stephen L. Carter
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Free Press, NY
  • Date 1995-02-01
  • ISBN 9780029131695 / 0029131693
  • Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 6.12 x 0.95 in (23.52 x 15.54 x 2.41 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Women's Interest
  • Library of Congress subjects Voting - United States, Proportional representation - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93050556
  • Dewey Decimal Code 328.73

About the author

Lani Guinier was the first woman of color appointed to a tenured professorship at Harvard Law School in 1998. In the 1980s, she served as a lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and was the Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights during the Carter Administration. She has published Becoming Gentlemen, Lift Every Voice, and The Miner's Canary.
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