The World According to Star Wars

A startling, fresh, and occasionally hilarious celebration of George Lucas's masterpiece as it relates to history, presidential politics, law, economics, fatherhood, and culture, by Harvard professor and former White House "regulatory czar" Cass Sunstein.

The STAR WARS series, Sunstein argues, is all about serendipity and freedom - about the clouded nature of the future, the dismal failures of plans, and the inevitability, in our lives and our society, of "I am your father" moments, which cast a new light on everything that has gone before. Sunstein illustrates this theme by reference to large and unanticipated movements in our culture, our law, our business, and our politics (including presidential elections) - and to the genesis of STAR WARS itself. "Impossible to see, the future is," says Yoda; this is the secret theme of STAR WARS and the foundation of its rousing tribute to human freedom.