The Lives of the Constitution: Ten Exceptional Minds That Shaped America`s Supreme Law 9781641770620

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Автор: Tartakovsky Joseph
Название: The Lives of the Constitution: Ten Exceptional Minds That Shaped America`s Supreme Law
ISBN: 9781641770620
Издательство: Encounter Books
Классификация:

Биографии исторических, политических и военных деятелей

Сборники биографий

История государства и права

Конституционное и административное право

ISBN-10: 1641770627
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 320
Вес: 0.45 кг.
Дата издания: 08.10.2019
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152 x 23
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Ten exceptional minds that shaped america`s supreme law
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: 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 Americas 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.

The Lives of the Constitution: Ten Exceptional Minds That Shaped America`s Supreme Law, Tartakovsky Joseph