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Book SynopsisAnalyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to contemporary anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. This book explores the tensions between American's deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers.
Trade ReviewHilarious and philosophical at the same time, a nifty probe of the genre, regularly guilty of wise humor. - Carlin Romano, Philadelphia Inquirer ""I never realized how funny and serious lawyer jokes could be. Galanter does to lawyer jokes what Freud did to Jewish jokes in his classic Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, but sometimes a good joke is just a good joke."" - Alan Dershowitz, author of Rights from Wrongs ""This book should be on every folklorist's and lawyer's shelf, although the latter may want to put it in a plain brown wrapper."" - Jan Harold Brunvand, author of Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: The Book of Scary Urban Legends ""Anyone who finds lawyer jokes humorous (including most lawyers) or has always wondered about how and why they became so popular will very much enjoy this 'lowering of the bar.'"" - Alan J. Couture, ForeWord Magazine
