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The Nonsense Factory is a provocative polemic on the sorry state of American law. Whether you chiefly blame the Supreme Court or Congress or law professors or We The People ourselves--and whether or not you buy into every count of his indictment--Gibney's book raises serious questions about how we govern ourselves. --David A. Kaplan, author of The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution [A] sweeping new study of America's legal system. --Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe A diligent, carefully considered overview of the law and its many facets.... Gibney is an insurrectionist with a heavy mind but a light heart.... His overarching intellectual project is a deeply admirable, and indeed, a patriotic one. He's willing to take a little heat to get some new ideas out there, and he's willing to make a few enemies in the process. By applying his deeply agile mind to the seemingly intractable obstacles of our democracy, he implicitly and crucially demonstrates the belief that real solutions exist. --Lawyers, Guns, and Money A keen, lively deconstruction of the American legal system's seemingly countless flaws. --Kirkus Reviews Gibney (A Generation of Sociopaths) boldly declares that these chaotic times have been long-developing in the legal realm.... A timely investigation of the 'Imperial Presidency' considers the history and dangers of executive power. Ultimately, Gibney calls for structural reform and corrective actions.... Civic-minded readers .... will enjoy this ambitious and wry polemic on America's legal system. --Library Journal Gibney is ... often funny, and his criticisms are serious, well-argued, and provocative. --Publishers Weekly Law schools seeking a good overview could save themselves the trouble and just assign entering students [The Nonsense Factory].... A plain-English wide-angle critique of the legal system... Ambitious.... Non-lawyers and many attorneys, too, will certainly have a better sense of what ails our justice system after reading this book. --Washington Post Monumental and hugely entertaining...smart, funny, incisive.... -- Good Law Bad Law podcast with Aaron Freiwald Really interesting book... stirring the pot. --The Young Turks

The Nonsense Factory is a provocative polemic on the sorry state of American law. Whether you chiefly blame the Supreme Court or Congress or law professors or We The People ourselves--and whether or not you buy into every count of his indictment--Gibney's book raises serious questions about how we govern ourselves. --David A. Kaplan, author of The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution

Law schools seeking a good overview could save themselves the trouble and just assign entering students [The Nonsense Factory].... A plain-English wide-angle critique of the legal system... Ambitious.... Non-lawyers and many attorneys, too, will certainly have a better sense of what ails our justice system after reading this book. --Washington Post Monumental and hugely entertaining...smart, funny, incisive.... -- Good Law Bad Law podcast with Aaron Freiwald Really interesting book... stirring the pot. --The Young Turks Gibney (A Generation of Sociopaths) boldly declares that these chaotic times have been long-developing in the legal realm.... A timely investigation of the 'Imperial Presidency' considers the history and dangers of executive power. Ultimately, Gibney calls for structural reform and corrective actions.... Civic-minded readers .... will enjoy this ambitious and wry polemic on America's legal system. --Library Journal A diligent, carefully considered overview of the law and its many facets.... Gibney is an insurrectionist with a heavy mind but a light heart.... His overarching intellectual project is a deeply admirable, and indeed, a patriotic one. He's willing to take a little heat to get some new ideas out there, and he's willing to make a few enemies in the process. By applying his deeply agile mind to the seemingly intractable obstacles of our democracy, he implicitly and crucially demonstrates the belief that real solutions exist. --Lawyers, Guns, and Money Gibney is ... often funny, and his criticisms are serious, well-argued, and provocative. --Publishers Weekly A keen, lively deconstruction of the American legal system's seemingly countless flaws. --Kirkus Reviews The Nonsense Factory is a provocative polemic on the sorry state of American law. Whether you chiefly blame the Supreme Court or Congress or law professors or We The People ourselves--and whether or not you buy into every count of his indictment--Gibney's book raises serious questions about how we govern ourselves. --David A. Kaplan, author of The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution

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Bruce Cannon Gibney is the author of A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America. A venture capitalist and writer, Gibney began as an attorney specializing in securities litigation and financial regulation. He was an early investor in PayPal, and later joined Founders Fund and co-founded Carmenta Management. He and his colleagues have funded Facebook, Spotify, Palantir Technologies, SpaceX, Lyft, AirBnB, Coupang, and DeepMind.

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