{"product_id":"9781616190361","title":"Figure It Out","description":"Foreword by Alexandra Stoddard, author of Living a Beautiful Life: 500 Ways to Add Elegance,Order, Beauty and Joy to Every Day of Your Life. \u003cp\u003e\"Often we come to a point in our lives when we dispense with the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etrivial and tire of ordinary superficialities,\" writes Peter Megargee\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrown in Figure It Out: A Guide to Wisdom. Here he has collected some\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the most profound statements of all time, and gathered them into\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etopical sections reflecting the depth of the thinker behind the trial\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elawyer. Sprinkled with his comments on the quotations he has carefully\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eselected over many years, sparkling anecdotes and essays complement\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe quotations and provide a complete and thought-provoking portrait\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof each subject.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrown leads you through the great subjects mankind has grappled\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewith since the beginning-spirituality, love, life, death, friendship-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand offers much more-his appraisal of the complexities of character,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewriting, history, memory, privacy, travel-drawing on the wisdom of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egreat philosophers including Aristotle, Hillel, Voltaire and Hegel,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSupreme Court Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Benjamin Cardozo and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph Story, the late Tony Snow, writers such as George Bernard Shaw,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAyn Rand, Maureen Dowd and Malachy McCourt, politicians Winston\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChurchill and Theodore Roosevelt, painter Henri Matisse and architect\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrank Lloyd Wright.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA collection that can be read cover-to-cover or flipped through\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efor a moment of illumination, Figure It Out: A Guide to Wisdom will\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eentertain and enlighten seekers of truth. Turn to this treasury for\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einspiration, as Alexandra Stoddard says in the Foreword, \"Whether you\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eare a reader, a writer, a historian, a philosopher, or a speaker at\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eimportant events-even making a toast-this personal selection will\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edelight you, uplift you, and help you to Figure It Out.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Megargee Brown began his legal career as assistant counsel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto John Marshall Harlan on the New York State Crime Commission. After\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMr. Harlan was appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Mr. Brown\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewent on to become chief litigator for the New York firm of Cadwalader,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWickersham \u0026amp; Taft. In 1982, he founded his own law firm in New York,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrown \u0026amp; Seymour. He is a Past President of the Federal Bar Council and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is the author of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enumerous books, including The Art of Questioning: Thirty Maxims of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCross Examination. He was educated at Yale College and Yale Law School\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand lives with his wife, the designer and author Alexandra Stoddard,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein Stonington, Ct.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Peter Megargee Brown Papers, the legal papers of the author,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecomprising 303 bound volumes of his principal law suits over 50 years\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof practice in the United States Supreme Court and Appellate Courts,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eare available for the use of students and scholars and can be found in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe \"Manuscripts and Archives\" section of the Yale University Library.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Lawbook Exchange","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47053122928880,"sku":"9781616190361","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781616190361_p0.jpg?v=1763854286","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781616190361","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}