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The Constitution Today
- Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era
- De: Akhil Reed Amar
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 19 h y 41 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 71
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 64
When the stories that lead our daily news involve momentous constitutional questions, present-minded journalists and busy citizens cannot always see the stakes clearly. In The Constitution Today, Akhil Reed Amar, America's preeminent constitutional scholar, considers the biggest and most bitterly contested debates of the last two decades. He shows how the Constitution's text, history, and structure are a crucial repository of collective wisdom, providing specific rules and grand themes relevant to every organ of the American body politic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amar is a Brilliant Arguer
- De MJ Schirmer en 11-16-16
- The Constitution Today
- Timeless Lessons for the Issues of Our Era
- De: Akhil Reed Amar
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
I remember now
Revisado: 09-04-24
I remembered too late why I don't read Amar's "journalistic" pieces (his term). For as deep an expert in the U.S. Constitution as he is (and let me be clear he is one of America's foremost experts on the Constitution), his understanding of politics is downright smooth-brained. McCain-Feingold is bad because money is speech? The Court blundered badly in holding that (Citizens United), and Amar looks clueless rallying to its defense. Speech is available to all, money is not. This is the core as to why regulation of the former is unconstitutional and regulation of latter is constitutional and good. My only guess is that Amar has just spent too much time in the confines of the Ivy bubble that is Yale.
His take on the exclusion rule tells me that Amar has never had a single encounter with a cop where the cop was anything but deferential to him. For the rest of us, who have had “spicier” encounters with cops, the exclusion rule is necessary to reign in the excesses of the police.
The rest of the book is an early 2000's rap song about how every judge wants to be him and every lawyer wants to sleep with him.
In short, the best thing about this book is that the publisher is wisely giving it away for free in the Plus Catalog, which is why it’s 2 stars instead of 1.
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After the Fall
- Being American in the World We've Made
- De: Ben Rhodes
- Narrado por: Ben Rhodes
- Duración: 12 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,109
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 972
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 968
At a time when democracy in the United States is endangered as never before, Ben Rhodes spent years traveling the world to understand why. He visited dozens of countries, meeting with politicians and activists confronting the same nationalism and authoritarianism that are tearing America apart. Along the way, he discusses the growing authoritarianism of Vladimir Putin, and his aggression toward Ukraine, with the foremost opposition leader in Russia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read, won’t regret it!!
- De Jerrold S. Gertzman en 06-03-21
- After the Fall
- Being American in the World We've Made
- De: Ben Rhodes
- Narrado por: Ben Rhodes
Little Caesar's Pizza
Revisado: 09-02-24
Rhodes’ book is the Little Caesar’s pizza of books. It isn’t good, but you give it a try anyway because people were talking about it and why not. This is mistake. His “history” isn’t new or insightful. His “journalism” consists of going out and asking someone, who is only talking to him because he was a speech writer for Obama and asking, “What do you think is wrong with <your country> and ‘the west’?” It’s bland. It adds nothing. The struggle session quality of the last chapter is worth skipping (and I did but only after I got half-way through it). This book isn’t Ron DeSantis’ “The Courage to Be Free” bad but I regret wasting a credit on it. It’s only function to me now is as a hate read, so when some liberal friend of mine starts a sentence with, “Ben Rhodes talked about this in his book…” I can listen quietly and then trash this book to their faces.
Also, let me add my voice to the chorus: To whatever foolish publisher gives Ben Rhodes a non-fiction book deal, under NO CIRCUMSTANCES do you let Rhodes read his own book. Literally, the only thing that could make another Rhodes’ non-fiction book worse would be having to spend 8+ hours listening to Rhodes read his tepid drivel (though his Yakov Smirnoff Russian “accent” was funny, in the way the movie Purple Rain is funny).
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