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02077aam a22002894i 4500 001 D655B5582AA611E9A696796597128E48 003 SILO 005 20190207010156 008 150614s2015 nyu eng 020 $a 0199974748 020 $a 9780199974740 (hardback) 020 $a 0199389713 020 $a 9780199389711 (paperback) 040 $b eng $e rda $d TLC $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Epps, Garrett $e author. $0 (DLC)n 84191039 245 10 $a American epic : $b reading the U.S. Constitution / $c Garrett Epps. 264 1 $a New York : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2015. 300 $a xxv, 274 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical notes and index. 505 $a Preface -- Preamble: "Tell me, Muse, how it all began" -- Article I: A Tale of Two Cities -- Article II: Under the Bramble Bush -- Article III: Solomon's Sword -- Article IV: All God's Children -- Article V: Alter or Abolish -- Article VI: The Supreme Law of the Land -- Article VII: Bloodless and Successful -- Last Things. 520 $a "The United States is the only nation in the world in which political leaders, judges and soldiers all swear allegiance not to a king or a people but to a document, the Constitution. The Constitution today, however, is much revered but little read. Readers of AMERICAN EPIC will never think of the Constitution in quite the same way again. Garrett Epps, a legal scholar who is also a journalist and writer of prize-winning fiction, takes readers on a literary tour of the Constitution, finding in it much that is interesting, puzzling, praiseworthy, and sometimes hilarious. Reading the Constitution like a literary work yields a host of meanings that shed new light on what it means to be an American"-- 630 0 $a Constitution of the United States. $0 (DLC)no2008000433 650 0 $a Constitutional law $z United States. $0 (DLC)sh 85139986 650 0 $a Constitutions $z United States. $0 (DLC)sh2009121595 941 $a 1 952 $l BJPD251 $d 20211215024518.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D655B5582AA611E9A696796597128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search