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American Epic: Reading the U.S. Constitution

By Garrett Epps
Narrated by: Lee Goettl
Unabridged — 12 hours, 49 minutes
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By Garrett Epps
Narrated by: Lee Goettl
Unabridged — 12 hours, 49 minutes
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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 disagrees. It's about 7,500 words. And Doctorow "missed a good deal of high rhetoric, many literary tropes, and even a trace of, if not wit, at least irony," he writes.



In American Epic, Epps takes us through a complete reading of the Constitution to achieve an appreciation of its power and a holist...