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"America's Nannies, Busybodies, and Petty Tyrants."
Between her introduction and her conclusion, each of the "empirical" chapters--on the shipbuilders, the Citadel cadets, the "gangstas," the Spur Posse, the Vietnam vets, the Promise Keepers, the football fans, the militiamen, the porno film stars, the fashion tyrants and their slaves, and Sylvester Stallone--can stand alone as testimony to a rich and unique life-world.
The LAT refers to the development as "a wake-up call to tyrants around the world."
The trouble with a legal system that allows a significant probability of convicting innocent people is that it allows unscrupulous prosecutors to become petty tyrants.
As you say, the myth of the strong father is one thing; the reality is often quite another: often tyrants who are intimidating rather than encouraging.