The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction

“This is one of the most important books about constitutional interpretation of its generation.”—Jeffrey Rosen, American Lawyer

Are the deep insights of Hugo Black, William Brennan, and Felix Frankfurter that have defined our cherished Bill of Rights fatally flawed? With meticulous historical scholarship and elegant legal interpretation a leading scholar of Constitutional law boldly answers yes as he explodes conventional wisdom about the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution in th...