American epic : reading the U.S. Constitution / / Garrett Epps
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| Autore: |
Epps Garrett
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| Titolo: |
American epic : reading the U.S. Constitution / / Garrett Epps
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2013 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (301 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 342.7302 |
| Soggetto topico: | Constitutional law - United States |
| Constitutions - United States | |
| Classificazione: | LAW018000 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 Amendments |
| A 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; Y | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In 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 an |
| Titolo autorizzato: | American epic |
| ISBN: | 0-19-997476-4 |
| 0-19-997475-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910962649303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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