The Death of Common Sense

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Why did the New York City building code crush MOTHER TERESA'S PLANS TO BUILD A SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS? Why do your tax dollars pay for policing elementary school art displays? how did a handicap-access law deny public bathrooms for thousands of able-bodied people? America is drowning: in law, legality, bureaucratic process. Abandoning our common sense and individual sense of responsibility, we live in terror of the law, in awe of procedure, at war with one another. Philip K. Howard has written the explosive manifesto for liberation-one of the most talked about sociopolitical treatises of our time. Citing dozens of examples of bureaucratic overkill-everything from the labeling of window cleaner as a toxic substance to the U.S. Department of Defense spending $2 biliion on travel and $2.2 biliion processing the paperwork for that travel-THE DEATH OF COMMON SENSE shows how far we have wandered, how we got into this mess, and how we can-and must-get out. "Impressive...thoroughly... Tovább

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Why did the New York City building code crush MOTHER TERESA'S PLANS TO BUILD A SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS? Why do your tax dollars pay for policing elementary school art displays? how did a handicap-access law deny public bathrooms for thousands of able-bodied people? America is drowning: in law, legality, bureaucratic process. Abandoning our common sense and individual sense of responsibility, we live in terror of the law, in awe of procedure, at war with one another. Philip K. Howard has written the explosive manifesto for liberation-one of the most talked about sociopolitical treatises of our time. Citing dozens of examples of bureaucratic overkill-everything from the labeling of window cleaner as a toxic substance to the U.S. Department of Defense spending $2 biliion on travel and $2.2 biliion processing the paperwork for that travel-THE DEATH OF COMMON SENSE shows how far we have wandered, how we got into this mess, and how we can-and must-get out. "Impressive...thoroughly researched...pointing to logical solutions...about what works and doesn't work in the United States."-Los Angeles Daily News "A brilliant diagnosis...forceful, trenchant, and eloquent. -Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. What Mr. Howard is trying to do with this thoughtful little book is drive us all sane." -New York Times Philip K. Howard grew up in Kentucky, the son of a Presbyterian minister, and now lives in Manhattan. He is a founding partner of the law firm of Howard, Darby & Levin and has been active in public affairs for over twenty years. Vissza