Isbn: 9780679419778 - a country with no name: tales from the constitution (12 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. In an imaginative and masterful work of history, Pulitzer Prize-winner Sebastian de Grazia has created two memorable characters. Nineteen-year-old Oliver Huggins is in for the tutorial of his life. For twelve afternoons, Claire St. John, a beguiling British graduate student, will reveal to him the untold story of American Constitutional history. Her means: the Socratic method. Her message: that the Constitution was itself unconstitutional, and that its authors' inability to choose a name for the republic muddied the document's meaning for the future ahead. Through these tutorials de Grazia passes in review our most revered heroes--Jefferson, Washington, Marshall, Lincoln, and Thoreau--revealing the complexity of their characters. St. John's unsettling tales arouse more in her disciple than intellectual curiosity. Their relationship unrolls in so humorous and seductive a way that only a musty academic could object. Satirical, intelligent, and sure-handed, A Country with No Name combines history and literature, politics and law to reinvigorate our best traditions.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2" high. 419 pages. Signed by the author, with an inscription to his wife, on half-title page. Black boards with black cloth backstrip & silver lettering on spine. Condition of book is FINE; An extremely clean, tight copy. Condition of dust jacket is VERY GOOD PLUS; Very light shelf-wear, not price-clipped. 0.0.…

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