The Reading Room

Living author

Joyce Vance

1960-

A former United States Attorney and law professor whose first book turned years of public legal explanation into a sustained argument. Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy sets the present strain on American institutions in legal and historical context, and makes the case for sustained citizen engagement. She writes the law and the courts for a general reader, plainly, and toward action.

In the library

  • Giving Up Is Unforgivable

    A former federal prosecutor's first book, turning years of public legal explanation into a sustained case for staying in the fight. Vance sets the present strain...