Product Description: Is labor’s day over or is this the big moment? Is it the logical next step beyond Occupy Wall Street or is it just a dead end? In his new book, labor lawyer and acclaimed author Tom Geoghegan argues that only a new kind of labor movement can get the country out of debt—private debt, government debt, and most of all trade debt...read more

Product Description: American society has grown dramatically more unequal over the past quarter century. The economic gains of American workers after World War II have slowly been eroded —in part because organized labor has gone from encompassing one-third of the private sector workers to less than one-tenth...read more

Product Description: Tired of working ’til you drop and not going anywhere? Try to imagine your life in a full-blown European social democracy—especially the German version. In an idiosyncratic, entertaining travelogue written in a “chatty, anecdotal style [that’s] appealingly digressive and winning” (Publishers Weekly), Thomas Geoghegan explains the appeal of “boring” Germany, where workers sit as directors on the big corporate boards and ordinary people have six weeks off and retire with pensions like golden parachutes...read more

Product Description: The acclaimed labor lawyer and prizewinning author Thomas Geoghegan asks: where are we better off—America or Europe? In an idiosyncratic, entertaining travelogue that plays on public policy, Geoghegan asks what our lives would be like if we lived them as Europeans...read more

Product Description: A Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of 2007—a bold new argument that conservative policy has led to America's lawsuit culture, from the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.While just about everyone agrees that we've become a lawsuit nation, is it really class actions by a coterie of private trial lawyers whose enormous settlements and, in Karl Rove's words, "junk lawsuits" that are subverting democracy? Thomas Geoghegan, whom Time called "a modern-day Quixote of the legal profession," thinks not...read more

Product Description: It's an enduring axiom: before there is democracy, there is rule of law. Thomas Geoghegan argues here in his lively pamphlet that as the pillars of the American legal system are crumbling, so too is the American democracy. Geoghegan convincingly explains how the 2000 presidential election was only the first sign that justice is now driven by party politics...read more

Product Description: The comic, poignant, one-of-a-kind book that "reads like an enthralling novel" (Studs Terkel). When it first appeared in hardcover, Which Side Are You On? received widespread critical accolades, and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction...read more

A prominent civil lawyer describes his eye-opening introduction to criminal law and the American criminal justice system when he is asked by a friend and public defender to assist the defense of a young man who, at the age of fifteen, served as the unarmed lookout in a botched burglary attempt and who had been sentenced to forty years in prison. 12,500 first printing.

Combining memoir and observation, the author explores the shifting role of the federal government in Americans' pursuit of the good life (view table of contents)

Product Description: In the process of arranging these pieces for two guitars, the author examined the solo and orchestral parts of Vivaldi's scores with an eye to their textural effect. The end result is a guitar duet setting featuring equal roles for both players...read more