THE LANGUAGE OF DISSENT

by Lowell B. Mason ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

For eleven years a member of the Federal Trade Commission, Lowell B. Mason left his post in November, 1956. Here is a compilation of his official reactions during that period of service to what he terms the vagaries and injustices of federal administrative law, for Mr. Mason was often a dissenter, holding out against what he saw as bureaucratic tyranny. Here, with interpretative asides, are his opinions as stated officially in a number of cases that pointed up to him the pitfalls of an agency at once operating in an administrative and a judiciary capacity. Such problems include unequal justice under the law, in which the agency decides whom to sue and when to break its word; the morality of law and ethics of enforcement which is dependent on Congress for funds to prosecute and on fan mail hit-or-miss for prosecutees; the problem of the judge-prosecutor; the temptation of an agency working under such broad statutes that it can shape its methods to its own ends... The nature of both his observations and his organization about the opinions would seem to limit this book to the more initiated in the business, legal, civic-political communities. It is difficult for the ordinary reader to assess his agitation.

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1959

Categories: NONFICTION