Book Review by B. Glenn George
I confess at the outset that I am a greater fan of fiction than nonfiction literature. But this was a book for me, almost a book about me. Thomas Geoghegan went to Harvard Law School in the 1970s. I went to Harvard Law School in the 1970s, albeit a few years after Mr. Geoghegan. Thomas Geoghegan stumbled into labor law by chance and has spent a good portion of his life since then trying to make sense of its demise. I stumbled into labor law by chance and have spent a good portion of my academic career trying to make sense of my devotion to what many consider a dying field. Mr. Geoghegan and I both smoked cigars at one point in our respective careers to establish our labor credentials. Mr. Geoghegan and I even make about the same amount of money pursuing our terminally ill patient of labor law. Mr. Geoghegan works for the unions and has always worked for the unions. Oops. My chosen career path depends now, just as does Mr. Geoghegan's, on the survival of the American Labor Movement. But my time in the field and on the line was as a management labor lawyer—a breed to which Mr. Geoghegan refers only once in 287 pages. He stumbled into a blind date with a management labor lawyer and barely made it through one gin and tonic. I like to think that Mr. Geoghegan and I would have made it through that drink anyway, but maybe not.
About the Author
B. Glenn George. Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado School of Law. B.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1975; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1978.
Citation
67 Tul. L. Rev. 581 (1992)