American Epic: Reading the US Constitution
- ISBN-10
- 0199389713
- ISBN-13
- 9780199389711
- Series
- American Epic
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-02-01
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Garrett Epps
Description
"The United States is the only nation in the world in which political leaders, judges and soldiers all swear allegiance not to a king or a people but to a document, the Constitution. The Constitution today, however, is much revered but little read. . Readers of AMERICAN EPIC will never think of the Constitution in quite the same way again. Garrett Epps, a legal scholar who is also a journalist and writer of prize-winning fiction, takes readers on a literary tour of the Constitution, finding in it much that is interesting, puzzling, praiseworthy, and sometimes hilarious. Reading the Constitution like a literary work yields a host of meanings that shed new light on what it means to be an American"--
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- 2013-09-19
- 274 pages
- Paperback
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- 2017-05-02
- 288 pages
- Paperback
- Simon and Schuster
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