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Pulitzer Prize, History, 1997
What did the US Constitution originally mean, and how can we recover the intentions of its framers? These questions, which resound throughout today’s most heated legal and political controversies, lie at the heart of Jack N. Rakove’s splendidly readable work of historical analysis. In Original Meanings, he traces the complex weave of ideology and interests from which the Constitution emerged and shows how Americans have attached different meanings to their founding document from the moment it was published.
Original Meanings examines the classic issues that the framers of the Constitution had to solve: federalism, representation, executive power, individual rights, and the idea that the Constitution itself should become supreme law. Rakove pays particular attention to James Madison, the Constitution’s presiding genius, whose brilliance shaped the document’s framing, ratification, and amendment. The result is a major work of reinterpretation that should be read by every student of American history, law, and politics.
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This classic work explains the evolution of American political thought from the Declaration of Independence to the ratification of the Constitution. In so doing, it greatly illuminates the origins of the present American political system.
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This Audible book is NOT for a popular audience!
- De BigWally en 11-22-18
De: Gordon S. Wood
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The Radicalism of the American Revolution
- De: Gordon S. Wood
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
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Grand in scope, rigorous in its arguments, and elegantly synthesizing 30 years of scholarship, Gordon S. Wood's Pulitzer Prize–winning book analyzes the social, political, and economic consequences of 1776. In The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Wood depicts not just a break with England, but the rejection of an entire way of life: of a society with feudal dependencies, a politics of patronage, and a world view in which people were divided between the nobility and "the Herd."
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Changed the Way I Think
- De Cynthia en 01-04-14
De: Gordon S. Wood
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The Case Against the Supreme Court
- De: Erwin Chemerinsky
- Narrado por: Philip Hernandez
- Duración: 14 h y 11 m
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Both historically and in the present, the Supreme Court has largely been a failure. In this devastating book, Erwin Chemerinsky—“one of the shining lights of legal academia” (The New York Times)—shows how, case by case, for over two centuries, the hallowed Court has been far more likely to uphold government abuses of power than to stop them.
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Splendid!
- De Butch en 05-19-23
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Ratification
- The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
- De: Pauline Maier
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 23 h y 5 m
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When the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia adjourned late in the summer of 1787, the delegates returned to their states to report on the new Constitution, which had to be ratified by specially elected conventions in at least nine states. Pauline Maier recounts the dramatic events of the ensuing debate in homes, taverns, and convention halls, drawing generously on the speeches and letters of founding fathers, both familiar and forgotten, on all sides.
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History Always Repeats
- De Howard en 08-27-11
De: Pauline Maier
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The Framers' Coup
- The Making of the United States Constitution
- De: Michael J. Klarman
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 31 h y 45 m
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Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them "all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views." One need not deny that the Framers had good intentions in order to believe that they also had interests.
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Context Matters
- De Keith en 03-18-18
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Peter the Great
- His Life and World
- De: Robert K. Massie
- Narrado por: Frederick Davidson
- Duración: 43 h y 38 m
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This superbly told story brings to life one of the most remarkable rulers––and men––in all of history and conveys the drama of his life and world. The Russia of Peter's birth was very different from the Russia his energy, genius, and ruthlessness shaped. Crowned co-Tsar as a child of ten, after witnessing bloody uprisings in the streets of Moscow, he would grow up propelled by an unquenchable curiosity, everywhere looking, asking, tinkering, and learning, fired by Western ideas.
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Narrater ruins everything
- De BrendaLouQuilts en 12-30-11
De: Robert K. Massie
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Pale Fire
- De: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor, Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed - according to Nabokov's fiction - by John Francis Shade, an obsessively methodical man, during the last 20 days of his life.
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An amazing feat for such a unique novel
- De AmazonCustomer en 03-27-12
De: Vladimir Nabokov
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The Rediscovery of America
- Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
- De: Ned Blackhawk
- Narrado por: Jason Grasl
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The most enduring feature of US history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.
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Interesting book marred by poor reading
- De Nathaniel Sterling en 03-04-24
De: Ned Blackhawk
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A Light Through the Cracks
- A Climber's Story
- De: Beth Rodden
- Narrado por: Beth Rodden
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Renowned rock climber Beth Rodden’s inspiring memoir about overcoming devastating trauma, refusing to be held hostage by fear, and taking a leap toward healing.
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Thought-provoking, vulnerable and inspiring
- De Hannah en 08-07-24
De: Beth Rodden
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The Pursuit of Happiness
- How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
- De: Jeffrey Rosen
- Narrado por: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Jeffrey Rosen
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The Declaration of Independence identified “the pursuit of happiness” as one of our unalienable rights, along with life and liberty. Jeffrey Rosen, the president of the National Constitution Center, profiles six of the most influential founders—Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton—to show what pursuing happiness meant in their lives....
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Great book; highly recommended
- De Eric Moore Schneider en 02-21-24
De: Jeffrey Rosen
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Original Meanings
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- Robert D Hunter
- 07-24-22
Too Academic
This book is best seen as a required reading for a class in Constitutional Law. It is too technical for the lay reader no matter how interested they are in the pros and cons of original intent.
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- 08-18-11
Boring
The narrator is excellent but the author writes like a high-brow college professor's text book. Although he provides a lot of historical facts, his presentation is boring and hard to follow. I found myself struggling to stay interested.
In addition to that, the author starts his presentation with a false premise and then spends the rest of the book building his case on that foundation. The author is a either a Moderate or a Liberal because he tries to present every argument ever made about the Constitution as being equally valid. In this way, he tries to "prove" that there is no way we can really know for sure how to properly interpret the Constitution because everyone back then had their own personal understanding of what it meant.
If you're trying to gain a better understanding of the Constitution, this book is not for you. If you want a detailed analysis of all the historical facts that lead to the ratification of the Constitution and an understanding of all the arguments that were made from all sides, both for and against the Constitution, then you might like the book.
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- Leslie W. Stewart III
- 02-16-24
A master insight.
Very informative and very heady. I would had stopped listening to this audio a number of times, but it always gave me new insights into the processes of making this great, though hypocritical, country.
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- 10-24-11
Epistemological in its approach ...
Any book that uses the word epistemological many times in context is probably a book you might better absorb in print. This is one of those books. Mind you, it is a very good book. It attempts to analyze the intent of the constitution by close examination of material (including dialogue, conversations, and so on) of those who wrote the document.
It is also a very complicated book, full of legal terms. Clearly a lot of scholarship went into its creation and there's a wealth of material for anyone seriously interested in constitutional law and this period in US. Which is exactly why it is difficult to absorb as audio. Many times, I would have liked to flip back the pages and reread an earlier section to improve context and understanding, but audio isn't amenable to that.
Which is not to say you shouldn't listen to it: do, if this is an area of interest for you, but perhaps if you are serious about it, you might want to also read it in print.
About the narrator: NEVER has a narrator worked so hard to make essentially dry material sound lively and entertaining. The narrator does absolutely everything anyone could do to improve the audio experience and should be given a medal for his valiant attempt. To the degree that this material could be made entertaining for audio, he did it. If he couldn't make the book compelling, he did manage to make it listenable. That is no small feat considering what he had to work with.
This is a fine book, full of anecdotal and historical information and legal analysis. Listen to it. And read it, too.
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- S. Chapin
- 05-24-12
Both sides of the story told
I was so tired of political histories claiming to be the real story but chocked full of political spin for one side or another. This has the story behind all the political spin during the making of the constitution. It gives both sides of the story. For those who like history or want to learn about the constitution.
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- Chris
- 04-23-21
I HAD TO STOP!
I may be the only person in America with the idiosyncratic view I’m about to share of this work, but I offer it, nonetheless, because it is my authentic reaction.
This work so meticulously addresses the tensions in the debates around our governing architecture (and with such great historical depth), you will come away feeling like a Constitutional scholar, and you will enjoy the zest the narrator brought to even the dryer concepts.
But the author has a “writing tic” that, once I caught it, I couldn’t turn it off, and it destroyed my joy. He writes as if he must get 500 SAT words into each chapter.
Lest people think I’m a hater because it was “above me,” there wasn’t a word I didn’t know, but it felt very much like having dinner with somebody determined to impress you, so he/she/they choose the most elaborate word on EVERY occasion, and it becomes overwhelming.
I recognize this is an abstract point I make, so I went at random into a chapter and pulled out two sentences to try to illustrate:
“Martin’s unswerving fealty to the primordial sovereignty of the states, and Gary’s knack for moving idiosyncratic and futile amendments had worn thin over the course of the debates. So had Mason’s self-serving penchant for casting himself the vigilant patriot, alone resisting the errors to which others were succumbing.”
If this prose excites you, I cannot recommend this book highly enough. But if you find the passage a bit....ostentatious, let’s say...you might want to consider if you can listen to phrases just like it for 18 straight hours.
I couldn’t.
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- VAHagel
- 10-13-17
awesome history of exactly what the title advertis
This was an incredibly good analysis of the thoughts and words of the men who wrote the Constitution, the issues debated at the Constitutional Convention, and the views of each of the critical players on the various parts of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, all based on contemporaneous sources.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-22-19
Boring presentation of important era
I usually enjoy historic commentary, but this was a boring presentation of an important time of competing factions and ideas.
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- BigWally
- 10-01-18
Meant for historians & constitutional scholars!
I bought this audiobook thinking it was meant for a popular audience. Alas, it is really intended for professional historians, constitutional scholars, law students studying constitutional law, etc. The reader was really outstanding. Clearly, the author is extremely knowledgeable about his subject, but the book went in to far more detail than I wanted or needed.
Gordon Wood, the distinguished early American scholar now retired from Brown University, has written a number of books for a general audience which are superb, fascinating, and a real pleasure to read. I was disappointed that this book was not addressed to persons having a real interest in the making and ratification of the constitution but who are not historians or law students. I suppose I will need to keep looking for such a book.
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