ISBN: 9780394529059 - a machine that would go of itself: the constitution in american culture (12 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. 1st. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. 1st. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardback. Zustand: Good.

hardcover. illus. 532pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w. N.Y.: Knopf, 1986. vg.

Zustand: good, ex-lib., good. First Edition. First? Printing. 27 cm, 532, illus., few library markings, stamp on top edge, DJ pasted to boards, rear endpaper may have been removed.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Fine in very good dust jacket. Dsut cover shows some smudge marks. Tearing along top edge, spine ends.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Hardcover and dust jacket, both lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners, some minor pen markings in text.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 529 pages. Ex-libraryIN HIS NEW BOOK, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen examines th e cultural impact on the United States of its Constitution?its place in the pu blic consciousness and its role as a symbol in American life?from ratification in 1788 to our own time. Exploring what the Constitution has meant to the Ameri can people (perceptions and misperceptions, uses and abuses, knowledge and ignor ance), he shows that a glaring discrepancy exists between the recurrent declarat ions of reference for our American Ark of the Covenant and the fact that most of us neither know nor fully understand it.How did this gap between ideo logy and reality come about? To explain it, Kammen examines the complex and cont radictory feelings about the Constitution that emerged during its preparation an d have been with us ever since:our confusion as to the kind of Union we created, especially with regard to how much sovereignty the states actually surr endered to the central governmentthe development, haltingly and incompletel y, of the Constitution as a national symbol between 1789 and 1860the major constitutional crisis of the nineteenth century: the Civil War and its aftermath the near-failure of the attempt to organize an observance of the Centennial of the Constitution in 1887changing perceptions of the differences and simil arities between the British and American constitutionsturn-of-the-century de bates about states' rights versus national authority, and about how easy or diff icult it ought to be to amend the Constitutionthe development of a cult of the Constitution following World War I, and the conflict over policy issues tha t persisted in spite of itexpanded awareness of constitutional problems in p.…