One L, Scott Turow's journal of his first year at law school and a bestseller when it was first published in 1977, has become a virtual bible for prospective law students. Introducing the ideas and issues of a legal education; it also brings alive the anxiety and competitiveness that set the tone in this crucible of character building. Each September, a new crop of students enter Harvard Law School to begin an intense, often grueling, sometimes harrowing year. Will the One L's survive? Will they excel? With remarkable insight, Turow leads us through the ups and downs in an absorbing and thought-provoking narrative about not only law school and the law but the human beings who strive to understand it.