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We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution

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WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORY ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, New Yorker, Smithsonian, Bookpage, and the Chicago Public Library Longlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Ex...

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GENERIC
Titre
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
Éditeur
Liveright
Type de produit
paperback
Présentation du livre
paperback
Date de sortie
9/16/2025 12:00:00 AM
Langue d'origine
English
ISBN
1631496085
Nombre de pages
720 pages
Langue
English
Résumé
WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORY ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2025NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, New Yorker, Smithsonian, Bookpage, and the Chicago Public Library Longlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction "[Lepore's] 15th book, We the People, a history of the U.S. Constitution, may be her best yet, a capacious work that lands at the right moment, like a life buoy, as our ship of state takes on water." ―Hamilton Cain, Los Angeles Times From the best-selling author of These Truths comes We the People, a stunning new history of the U.S. Constitution, for a troubling new era. The U.S. Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world but also one of the most difficult to amend. Jill Lepore, Harvard professor of history and law, explains why in We the People, the most original history of the Constitution in decades―and an essential companion to her landmark history of the United States, These Truths. Arriving on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding―the anniversary, too, of the first state constitutions―We the People offers a wholly new history of the Constitution. “One of the Constitution’s founding purposes was to prevent change,” Lepore writes. “Another was to allow for change without v i o l e n c e.” Relying on the extraordinary database she has assembled at the Amendments Project, Lepore recounts centuries of attempts, mostly by ordinary Americans, to realize the promise of the Constitution. Yet nearly all those efforts have failed. Although nearly twelve thousand amendments have been introduced in Congress since 1789, and thousands more have been proposed outside its doors, only twenty-seven have ever been ratified. More troubling, the Constitution has not been meaningfully amended since 1971. Without recourse to amendment, she argues, the risk of political v i o l
Auteur
Jill Lepore
Date de parution
9/16/2025 12:00:00 AM