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The Lives of the Constitution - Ten Exceptional Minds that Shaped America’s Supreme Law (Paperback)
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The Lives of the Constitution - Ten Exceptional Minds that Shaped America’s Supreme Law (Paperback)
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In a fascinating blend of biography and history, Joseph Tartakovsky
tells the epic and unexpected story of our Constitution through the
eyes of ten extraordinary individuals—some renowned, like
Alexander Hamilton and Woodrow Wilson, and some forgotten, like
James Wilson and Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Tartakovsky brings to life
their struggles over our supreme law from its origins in
revolutionary America to the era of Obama and Trump. Sweeping from
settings as diverse as Gold Rush California to the halls of
Congress, and crowded with a vivid Dickensian cast, Tartakovsky
shows how America’s unique constitutional culture grapples with
questions like democracy, racial and sexual equality, free speech,
economic liberty, and the role of government. Joining the ranks of
other great American storytellers, Tartakovsky chronicles how
Daniel Webster sought to avert the Civil War; how Alexis de
Tocqueville misunderstood America; how Robert Jackson balanced
liberty and order in the battle against Nazism and Communism; and
how Antonin Scalia died warning Americans about the ever-growing
reach of the Supreme Court. From the 1787 Philadelphia Convention
to the clash over gay marriage, this is a grand tour through two
centuries of constitutional history as never told before, and an
education in the principles that sustain America in the most
astonishing experiment in government ever undertaken.
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