Guarding Life's Dark Secrets: Legal and Social Controls Over Reputation, Propriety, and Privacy

by Lawrence M. Friedman

Book Overview

Guarding Life's Dark Secrets tells the story of an intriguing aspect of the social and legal culture in the United States, the construction and destruction of a network of doctrines designed to protect reputation. The strict and unbending rules of decency and propriety of the nineteenth century, especially concerning sexual behavior, paradoxically provided ways to protect and shield respectable men and women who deviated from the official...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804757399
• ISBN13: 9780804757393
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

The History of reputation

Good book, I would recomend it to any one interested in law, privacy, and history.