Moses Greeley Parker Memorial Library (Dracut)

American epic, reading the US Constitution, Garrett Epps

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

American epic

bibliography

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Garrett Epps

reading the US Constitution

"The United States is the only nation in the world in which political leaders, judges and soldiers all swear allegiance not to a king or a people but to a document, the Constitution. The Constitution today, however, is much revered but little read. . Readers of AMERICAN EPIC will never think of the Constitution in quite the same way again. Garrett Epps, a legal scholar who is also a journalist and writer of prize-winning fiction, takes readers on a literary tour of the Constitution, finding in it much that is interesting, puzzling, praiseworthy, and sometimes hilarious. Reading the Constitution like a literary work yields a host of meanings that shed new light on what it means to be an American"--, Provided by publisher

Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- 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 Chidren -- Article V: Alter or Abolish -- Article VI: The Supreme Law of the Land -- Article VII: Bloodless and Successful -- Last Things