Akhil Reed Amar, Author . Random $29.95 (657p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6262-1
You can read the U.S. Constitution, including its 27 amendments, in about a half-hour, but it takes decades of study to understand how this blueprint for our nation's government came into existence. Amar, a 20-year veteran of the Yale Law School
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Aknil Reed Amar. Basic, $29.99 (668p) ISBN 978-0-465-02957-0
Yale law professor Amar follows his highly regarded historical-textual analysis of America’s Constitution with a companion volume on the history, culture, and legal tenets of the “unwritten constitution,” the traditions and precedents that inform...
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Akhil Reed Amar. Basic, $28.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-465-06590-5
Geography takes center stage in this deep dive into U.S. constitutional jurisprudence. The third installment of a continuing series from Yale law professor Amar, following America’s Constitution and America’s Unwritten Constitution, this ambitious...
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Akhil Reed Amar. Basic, $29.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-465-09633-6
Yale law professor Amar (The Law of the Land), a frequent New York Times contributor, would seem the perfect choice to provide an accessible and engrossing look at current constitutional issues. Unfortunately, that’s not what this volume is. Instead
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Akhil Reed Amar. Basic, $40 (882p) ISBN 978-0-465-09635-0
The U.S. collectively talked and wrote its way into being, according to this dazzling constitutional history. Yale law professor Reed (The Law of the Land) surveys America’s evolving ideas about government and law via discussions of Paxton’s Case, a
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Akhil Reed Amar. Basic, $40 (736p) ISBN 978-1-5416-0519-0
In this sprawling account, legal scholar Amar (The Words That Made Us) tracks the evolution of constitutional rights from the heights of “slavocracy” in the 1840s and ’50s through women winning the right to vote in 1920. This 80-year shift, he...
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