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J. W. Freiberg holds a PhD from UCLA and a JD from Harvard Law School. He is the author of the prize-winning book "Four Seasons of Loneliness: A Lawyer's Case Stories" and two earlier books, "Critical Sociology: European Perspectives" and "The French Press," as well as the editor of "Growing Up Lonely: Disconnection and Misconnection in the Lives of our Children." Freiberg is a member of the Massachusetts state bar and the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, and he serves as a justice of the peace in Massachusetts, where he resides with his wife, near their children.

His book "Four Seasons of Loneliness: A Lawyer's Case Stories" has received the IPPY (Independent Publishers Book Award) Gold Prize for 2017 for best book of the year ...more

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	Four Seasons of Loneliness: A Lawyer's Case Stories 4.21 avg rating — 66 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Surrounded by Others and Yet So Alone: A Lawyer’s Case Stories of Love, Loneliness, and Litigation 4.38 avg rating — 26 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Growing Up Lonely: Disconnection and Misconnection in the Lives of our Children 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The French Press: Class, State, and Ideology by J.W. Freiberg (Goodreads Author), Ernest Mandel (Design) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Critical sociology: European perspectives (Irvington critical sociology series) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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