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American epic : reading the U.S. Constitution /

"In 1987, E.L. Doctorow celebrated the Constitution's bicentennial by reading it. "It is five thousand words long but reads like fifty thousand," he said. Distinguished legal scholar Garrett Epps--himself an award-winning novelist--disagrees. It's about 7,500 words. And Doct...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Epps, Garrett
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford [England] : Oxford University Press, USA, 2013.
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