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America’s Constitution: A Biography, by Akhil Reed Amar (Random House, 672 pp., $29.95)

The idea of Akhil Amar’s new book is brilliantly simple. The execution of that idea is very good, but not quite as good as one might have hoped.

About the Author

Matthew J. Franck

Matthew J. Franck is a senior fellow at the Witherspoon Institute, a senior contributing editor of Public Discourse, a lecturer in politics at Princeton University, and professor emeritus of political science at Radford University.

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America’s Constitution: A Biography, by Akhil Reed Amar (Random House, 672 pp., $29.95)

The idea of Akhil Amar’s new book is brilliantly simple. The execution of that idea is very good, but not quite as good as one might have hoped.

About the Author

Matthew J. Franck

Matthew J. Franck is a senior fellow at the Witherspoon Institute, a senior contributing editor of Public Discourse, a lecturer in politics at Princeton University, and professor emeritus of political science at Radford University.