Living the Bill of Rights: How to Be an Authentic American
Paperback Published on: 03/12/1999
Price: £26.00
wordery
wordery
Synopsis
Nat Hentoff is one of America's most passionate and prominent writers about civil liberties and civil rights. In *Living the Bill of Rights*, he has taken what is too often thought of as an abstract issue and enlivened it by focusing on representative individuals for whom the Constitution is a vital part of life. As the late Supreme Court Justice William Brennan told Hentoff, Americans need to know how "American liberties were won-and what it takes to keep them alive." With characteristic eloquence, Hentoff covers the full range of American life in these inspiring profiles and stories about public and private heroes-Supreme Court Justices William Brennan and William O. Douglas, Dr. Kenneth Clark, and students, teachers, lawyers, and others who challenge assaults on the Bill of Rights.
Publisher information
- Publisher: University of California Press
- ISBN: 9780520219816
- Number of pages: 253
- Dimensions: 228 x 152 x 18 mm
- Weight: 388g
- Languages: English
