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1) To an unknown God: religious freedom on trial

Author

Epps, Garrett

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Pub. Date

2001.

Language

English

2) Democracy reborn: the Fourteenth Amendment and the fight for equal rights in post-Civil War America

Author

Epps, Garrett

Publisher

H. Holt

Pub. Date

2006.

Language

English

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Describes the fierce battle that erupted in post-Civil War America over the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, the implications of the revolutionary addition to the U.S. Constitution, and the colorful cast of characters involved--including Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, Frederick Douglass, and Susan B. Anthony. "The last battle of the Civil War wasn't fought at Appomattox by dashing generals or young soldiers but by middle-aged men in frock...

3) American epic: reading the US Constitution

Author

Epps, Garrett

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Pub. Date

[2013]

Language

English

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"In 1987, E.L. Doctorow celebrated the Constitution's bicentennial by reading it. "It is five thousand words long but reads like fifty thousand," he said. Distinguished legal scholar Garrett Epps--himself an award-winning novelist--disagrees. It's about 7,500 words. And Doctorow "missed a good deal of high rhetoric, many literary tropes, and even a trace of, if not wit, at least irony," he writes. Americans may venerate the Constitution, "but all...