03080nam 2200577Ia 450 991081522320332120240314012458.00-19-997476-40-19-997475-6(CKB)2670000000397218(EBL)1286289(OCoLC)852898526(SSID)ssj0000917665(PQKBManifestationID)12373798(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000917665(PQKBWorkID)10892977(PQKB)11672781(Au-PeEL)EBL1286289(CaPaEBR)ebr10732010(CaONFJC)MIL504409(MiAaPQ)EBC1286289(EXLCZ)99267000000039721820121212d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican epic reading the U.S. Constitution /Garrett Epps1st ed.Oxford Oxford University Press20131 online resource (301 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-997474-8 Cover; Contents; Preface: How to Read a Constitution; Acknowledgments; Preamble: "Tell me, Muse, how it all began"; Article I: A Tale of Two Cities; Article II: Under the Bramble Bush; Article III: Solomon's Sword; Article IV: All God's Children; Article V: Alter or Abolish; Article VI: The Supreme Law of the Land; Article VII: Bloodless and Successful; Last Things; The Bill of Rights: National Decalogue; Quick Fixes: Eleventh and Twelfth Amendments; Democratic Vistas: Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth AmendmentsA Burst of Reform: Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth AmendmentsHangover Remedies: Twentieth through Twenty-Second Amendments; Dreams and Nightmares: The Twenty-Third through Twenty-Sixth Amendments; Madison's Return: The Twenty-Seventh Amendment; Appendix: The United States Constitution; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; YIn 1987, E.L. Doctorow celebrated the Constitution's bicentennial by reading it. ""It is five thousand words long but reads like fifty thousand,"" he said. Distinguished legal scholar Garrett Epps--himself an award-winning novelist--disagrees. It's about 7,500 words. And Doctorow ""missed a good deal of high rhetoric, many literary tropes, and even a trace of, if not wit, at least irony,"" he writes. Americans may venerate the Constitution, ""but all too seldom is it read."" In American Epic, Epps takes us through a complete reading of the Constitution--even the ""boring"" parts--to achieve anConstitutional lawUnited StatesConstitutionsUnited StatesConstitutional lawConstitutions342.7302LAW018000bisacshEpps Garrett1593644MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815223203321American epic3933395UNINA