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The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760–1840 by Akhil Reed Amar
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The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760–1840 by Akhil Reed Amar

By Timothy Sandefur

Jun 02, 2021
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New York: Basic Books, 2021

817 pp. $22.99 (hardcover)

Decades ago, Harvard biologist Stephen Jay Gould became a pop culture icon thanks to his entertaining monthly essays on everything from the genetics of hyenas to long-term trends in the batting averages in professional baseball. They made him America’s most popular explainer of evolution, and he even …

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