ASIN: B01BL4XFPK
Publisher: A Blue Kitten Book
Pages: 357
The title of this book is an homage to The Paper Chase, the 1970 novel by John Jay Osborn, Jr. It was later adapted into a move and television series of the same name. John Houseman won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and other awards in his portrayal of the irascible Professor Charles Kingsfield, a professor of contract law at Harvard University. The Paper Chase portrays James T. Hart, an anxious first year law school student from the Midwest who along with other brilliant students is determined to chase paper— a grade and all that it means for his sense of worth and his future. But the process of learning how to think like a lawyer, the movie suggests, is largely a process of subtraction. As Susan Fields, Kingsfield's daughter and Hart's girlfriend, says: "They finally got you, Hart, they sucked all that Midwestern charm right out of you. Look, he's got you scared to death. ...
