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The high priests of American politics : the role of lawyers in American political institutions
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- Creator
- Mark C. Miller
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [1995]
- ©1995
- Physical Details
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- xii, 228 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780870499029, 0870499025
- OCLC
- ocm32167737
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [185]-222) and index.
- 1. The study of politics and of lawyers -- 2. Socialization into the legal profession -- 3. Lawyers, lawyers everywhere -- 4. The prevalence of lawyer-legislators in the United States -- 5. Are lawyers really different from nonlawyers? -- 6. How lawyer-legislators and nonlawyer-legislators view the courts -- 7. Are all lawyer-legislators the same? : a typology -- 8. Lawyers congressional committees -- 9. Lawyers' views and lawyers' ways : the institutional effects of lawyer-politicians