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The Lives of the Constitution - Ten Exceptional Minds that Shaped America's Supreme Law (Hardcover)
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The Lives of the Constitution - Ten Exceptional Minds that Shaped America's Supreme Law (Hardcover)
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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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