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Ranters Run Amok: And Other Adventures in the History of the Law

Autor Leonard W. Levy
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 feb 2009
The Pulitzer Prize-winning constitutional historian Leonard Levy here collects eight of his most important essays of recent years. Written with his characteristic erudition, clarity, directness, and verve, these explorations into the history of the law are at once an entertainment and an education. Mr. Levy begins with a long essay on the Ranters, the ornery radicals who confronted the state and repudiated the moral law in mid-seventeenth-century England. He continues with anecdotes about Supreme Court justices and-a highlight of the book-a fascinating behind-the-scenes view of the deliberation over the Pulitzer Prizes. His chronicle of a long debate with Harvard University Press over the publication of his book on blasphemy is eye-opening and confounding. He concludes with essays on the origins of the Fourth Amendment; on the critics of his prize-winning study of the Fifth Amendment; and on Lemuel Shaw, chief justice of Massachusetts from 1830 to 1860, whom Mr. Levy calls America's greatest magistrate. Together these essays are continuing proof of Mr. Levy's unmatched powers in producing readable and important scholarship.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781566637886
ISBN-10: 1566637880
Pagini: 253
Dimensiuni: 142 x 216 x 53 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Ivan R Dee
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Recenzii

America's foremost historian of law.
This book will cause even those who disagree with his conclusions to carefully rethink their positions.
A master of constitutional disputes.
Levy is not only the best historian of the American Constitution...but he is also one of the strongest and wisest of those in this generation.
One of the clearest and most eloquent liberal interpreters of law.