Reviews
Praise for The Unwanted Gaze " Jeffrey Rosen is America's most penetrating legal journalist, and this book is his magnum opus, bringing together many of the themes he has explored with such wit, elegance, insight, and imagination over the last decade. The Unwanted Gaze is as absorbing and downright fun to read as The Brethren, but with far more erudition, range, and sheer brilliance. There is no work--and no author--I know that does a better job braiding legal scholarship, academic ideas outside law, and popular culture. A contribution both timely and timeless." ---Akhil Reed Amar, Southmayd Professor of Law, Yale Law School " Jeffrey Rosen has the rare ability to write about complex areas of the law with grace and clarity. In this book, he addresses one of the most important and controversial legal questions of our time: the much-contested right to privacy, which Rosen persuasively argues has been seriously damaged by a wide range of intrusive innovations in law and society. Beginning with the Lewinsky scandal, Rosen ranges widely through critical moments in recent history and presents a disturbing picture of how law and technology have combined to imperil an important, if relatively recently asserted, right." ---Alan Brinkley, Alan Nevins Professor of History, Columbia University " Jeffrey Rosen performs a great service by exploring the many facets of privacy and the variety of ways it is under siege today. Moving swiftly past the most conventional wisdom about these matters, he sheds interesting light on many of the less obvious functions of privacy protection--not the least of which is its role in reducing the risk that we will be judged out of context and ultimately misunderstood in a world of depressingly short attention spans." ---Laurence H. Tribe, Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School " Possibly the most important privacy book in a generation. From Wilkes's diaries to Monica's phone calls, Jeffrey Rosen provides an extraordinarily provocative discussion of the ethical, legal, and philosophical dimensions of privacy. A brilliant exploration of one of today's most pressing social issues." ---Marc Rotenberg, executive director, Electronic Privacy Information Center " Jeffrey Rosen has written an indispensable analysis of the judicial foundation of the Starr inquisition (among other insupportable assaults on individual freedom). His lucid writing and subtle thinking are exhilarating. When a problem is identified with such clarity and precision, its solution no longer seems impossible." ---Janet Malcolm, author ofThe Crime of Sheila McGough, Praise for The Unwanted Gaze " Jeffrey Rosen is America's most penetrating legal journalist, and this book is his magnum opus, bringing together many of the themes he has explored with such wit, elegance, insight, and imagination over the last decade. The Unwanted Gaze is as absorbing and downright fun to read as The Brethren, but with far more erudition, range, and sheer brilliance. There is no work--and no author--I know that does a better job braiding legal scholarship, academic ideas outside law, and popular culture. A contribution both timely and timeless." ---Akhil Reed Amar, Southmayd Professor of Law, Yale Law School " Jeffrey Rosen has the rare ability to write about complex areas of the law with grace and clarity. In this book, he addresses one of the most important and controversial legal questions of our time: the much-contested right to privacy, which Rosen persuasively argues has been seriously damaged by a wide range of intrusive innovations in law and society. Beginning with the Lewinsky scandal, Rosen ranges widely through critical moments in recent history and presents a disturbing picture of how law and technology have combined to imperil an important, if relatively recently asserted, right." ---Alan Brinkley, Alan Nevins Professor of History, Columbia University " Jeffrey Rosen performs a great service by exploring the many facets of privacy and the variety of ways it is under siege today. Moving swiftly past the most conventional wisdom about these matters, he sheds interesting light on many of the less obvious functions of privacy protection--not the least of which is its role in reducing the risk that we will be judged out of context and ultimately misunderstood in a world of depressingly short attention spans." ---Laurence H. Tribe, Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School " Possibly the most important privacy book in a generation. From Wilkes's diaries to Monica's phone calls, Jeffrey Rosen provides an extraordinarily provocative discussion of the ethical, legal, and philosophical dimensions of privacy. A brilliant exploration of one of today's most pressing social issues." ---Marc Rotenberg, executive director, Electronic Privacy Information Center " Jeffrey Rosen has written an indispensable analysis of the judicial foundation of the Starr inquisition (among other insupportable assaults on individual freedom). His lucid writing and subtle thinking are exhilarating. When a problem is identified with such clarity and precision, its solution no longer seems impossible." ---Janet Malcolm, author of The Crime of Sheila McGough
