This Is Not Normal

“Sunstein is admirably alert to the fragilities of liberal democracy.”—Lawrence Douglas, Times Literary Supplement

“A provocative examination of social constructs and those who would alternately undo or improve them.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Measured, thoughtful, multi-pronged. . . . Sunstein’s focus is not on evaluating the American ‘normal’ so much as analyzing how it is constructed and the means by which it can be altered.”—Dana Dunham, Chicago Review of Books

“Provocative, insightful, and original essays on the power of normality, by one of the great social thinkers of this or any other generation.”—Daniel Gilbert, author of the New York Times best-seller Stumbling on Happiness

“What if our constitution has nothing to do with the Constitution? In this extraordinary new book, perhaps the leading legal academic of our time places a new problem at the center of the challenge of self-government: How does truth navigate the minefields of the normal? This is exactly the moment when we might muster the strength to be different, maybe even better.”—Lawrence Lessig, author of They Don’t Represent Us