New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2012. First published in 1973, this book is recognized as a classic account of American Legal Realism and its leading figure. In this second edition the original text is unchanged and is supplemented with a preface by Frederick Schauer and a lengthy afterword in which William Twining gives a fascinating personal account of the making of the book and comments on developments in relevant legal scholarship over the past forty years.