How long does it take to read The Hollow Hope?
Gerald N. Rosenberg
The Hollow Hope by Gerald N. Rosenberg takes about 9 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 47 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1991. 534 pages, about 146,850 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 7 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Liberals have acclaimed, and conservatives decried, reliance on courts as tools for changes. But while debate rages over whether the courts should be playing such a legislative role, Gerald N. Rosenberg poses a far more fundamental question—can courts produce political and social reform?Rosenberg presents, with remarkable skill, an overwhelming case that efforts to use the courts to generate significant reforms in civil rights, abortion, and women's rights were largely failures."The real strength of The Hollow Hope...is its resuscitation of American Politics—the old-fashioned representative kind—as a valid instrument of social change. Indeed, the flip side of Mr. Rosenberg's argument that courts don't do all that much is the refreshing view that politics in the best sense of the word—as deliberation and choice over economic and social changes, as well as over moral issues—is still the core of what makes America the great nation it is....A book worth reading."—Gary L. McDowell, The Washington Times
Subjects: Civil rights, Courts, Law, Nonfiction, Political questions and judicial power, Politics
