"This book is absolutely indispensable for anyone who wants to be a good citizen. It shows how to balance competing values, a talent our nation desperately needs nowadays." --Walter Isaacson, author of "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
""More than exhilarating; exciting in its ability to persuade this student/reader, time and again, that the principle now being invoked--on this page, in this chapter--is the one to deliver the sufficiently inclusive guide to the making of a decent life.""-- Vivian Gornick, Boston Review"

"Sandel explains theories of justice...with clarity and immediacy; the ideas of Aristotle, Jeremy Bentham, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Robert Nozick and John Rawls have rarely, if ever, been set out as accessibly... In terms we can all understand, 'Justice' confronts us with the concepts that lurk, so often unacknowledged, beneath our conflicts.""-- Jonathan Rauch, New York Times"

"Sandel dazzles in this sweeping survey of hot topics.... Erudite, conv