Garrett Epps: 4 books
American Epic
Reading the U.S. Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
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...
American Justice 2014
Nine Clashing Visions on the Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
In this provocative and insightful book, constitutional scholar and journalist Garrett Epps reviews the key decisions of the 2013-2014 Supreme Court term through the words of the nation's nine most powerful legal authorities. Epps succinctly outlines one opinion or dissent from each of the justices...
Wrong and Dangerous
Ten Right Wing Myths about Our Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
The primary purpose of the United States Constitution is to limit Congress. There is no separation of church and state. The Second Amendment allows citizens to threaten the government. These are just a few of the myths about our constitution peddled by the Far Right—a toxic coalition of Fox News...
Democracy Reborn
The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
A riveting narrative of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, an act which revolutionized the U.S. constitution and shaped the nation's destiny in the wake of the Civil War
Though the end of the Civil War and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation inspired optimism for a new, happier reality...