Garrett Epps

American Epic: Reading the U.S. Constitution

Buch

In American Epic, the eminent legal scholar Garrett Epps shares his own interpretations of the text of the U.S. Constitution-as law, as poetry, as narrative, and as What the Framers Intended-both as a guide and an inspiration for others as they explore the document for themselves and find their own approaches. He shows that it is possible to pay close attention to each word and sentence in the Constitution without interpreting it narrowly; to engage with the text notsearching for one meaning, but many. A fluid and engaging writer, Epps' learned and surprising reading of the Constitution will make readers look at the document in an entirely n… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-997474-0
EAN: 9780199974740
Produktnummer: 22189597
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 274 S.
Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.2 cm x D2.5 cm 531 g
Gewicht: 531

Über den Autor

Garrett Epps is Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore Law School. He is a former staff writer for the Washington Post, and has also written numerous articles and editorials in The New York Times, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, and The Atlantic. Two of his nonfiction books, Democracy Reborn (Henry Holt, 2006) and To An Unknown God (St. Martin's, 2001), have beenfinalists for the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award. He has also written two novels, including The Shad Treatment, which won the Lillian Smith Book Award.