Figure It Out : A Guide to Wisdom

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Editore: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. Apr 2010, 2010

1616190361 / 9781616190361

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Neuware - Foreword by Alexandra Stoddard, author of Living a Beautiful Life: 500 Ways to Add Elegance,Order, Beauty and Joy to Every Day of Your Life.'Often we come to a point in our lives when we dispense with thetrivial and tire of ordinary superficialities,' writes Peter MegargeeBrown in Figure It Out: A Guide to Wisdom. Here he has collected someof the most profound statements of all time, and gathered them intotopical sections reflecting the depth of the thinker behind the triallawyer. Sprinkled with his comments on the quotations he has carefullyselected over many years, sparkling anecdotes and essays complementthe quotations and provide a complete and thought-provoking portraitof each subject.Brown leads you through the great subjects mankind has grappledwith since the beginning-spirituality, love, life, death, friendshipand offers much more-his appraisal of the complexities of characterwriting, history, memory, privacy, travel-drawing on the wisdom ofgreat philosophers including Aristotle, Hillel, Voltaire and HegelSupreme Court Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Benjamin Cardozo andJoseph Story, the late Tony Snow, writers such as George Bernard ShawAyn Rand, Maureen Dowd and Malachy McCourt, politicians WinstonChurchill and Theodore Roosevelt, painter Henri Matisse and architectFrank Lloyd Wright.A collection that can be read cover-to-cover or flipped throughfor a moment of illumination, Figure It Out: A Guide to Wisdom willentertain and enlighten seekers of truth. Turn to this treasury forinspiration, as Alexandra Stoddard says in the Foreword, 'Whether youare a reader, a writer, a historian, a philosopher, or a speaker atimportant events-even making a toast-this personal selection willdelight you, uplift you, and help you to Figure It Out.'Peter Megargee Brown began his legal career as assistant counselto John Marshall Harlan on the New York State Crime Commission. AfterMr. Harlan was appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Mr. Brownwent on to become chief litigator for the New York firm of CadwaladerWickersham & Taft. In 1982, he founded his own law firm in New YorkBrown & Seymour. He is a Past President of the Federal Bar Council anda Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is the author ofnumerous books, including The Art of Questioning: Thirty Maxims ofCross Examination. He was educated at Yale College and Yale Law Schooland lives with his wife, the designer and author Alexandra Stoddardin Stonington, Ct.The Peter Megargee Brown Papers, the legal papers of the authorcomprising 303 bound volumes of his principal law suits over 50 yearsof practice in the United States Supreme Court and Appellate Courtsare available for the use of students and scholars and can be found inthe 'Manuscripts and Archives' section of the Yale University Library.

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Titolo
Figure It Out : A Guide to Wisdom
Autore
Peter Megargee Brown
Editore
Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. Apr 2010
Anno di pubblicazione
2010
Condizione
Neu
Rilegatura
Buch
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1616190361
ISBN 13
9781616190361
Peso dell'articolo
640 grammi
Dimensioni
240x161x21 mm

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