Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Jack N. Rakove
$18.95
Publication Date: May 27th, 1997
Publisher:
Vintage
ISBN:
9780679781219
Pages:
464

Description

From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so, traces its complex weave of ideology and interest, showing how this document has meant different things at different times to different groups of Americans.

About the Author

Jack N. Rakove is the author of six books, including Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, which won the Pulitzer Prize in History, and Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America, which was a finalist for the George Washington Prize. Rakove is the editor of seven other books, including The Unfinished Election of 2000.

Praise for Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

"The most thoughtful and careful scholarly analysis to date of the extent to which the framers should control our contemporary understanding of the Constitution."--Stanley N. Katz, American Council of Learned Societies

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