The grouchy historian : an old-time lefty defends our Constitution against right-wing hypocrites and nutjobs /
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New York, NY :
Simon & Schuster,
2017.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: why I wrote this book
- The founders and framers: who were those guys?
- Snapshots of life in Philadelphia, 1787
- Heckling the right wing: their top ten talking points and my top ten comebacks
- God and the Constitution, Part I: epistle to the Christian right
- God and the Constitution, Part II: epistle to the Mormons
- The writing of the Constitution: notes from the Constitutional Convention as recorded by Billey, slave to James Madison, May 6 to September 17, 1787
- Charles Beard's economic interpretation of the Constitution, Part I: meeting the framers
- Charles Beard's economic interpretation of the Constitution, Part II: following the money
- The chapter of leftovers: Part I
- Open letter to Senator Ted Cruz written in the style of 1787
- The Constitution according to Ben Carson, MD
- Rewriting the Constitution: Mark Levin and the Asner amendments
- Immigration and Ann Coulter: a review that was never published in the New York Times Book Review
- The shocking truth about the Bill of Rights
- The Bill of Rights in the real world
- The chapter of leftovers: Part II
- The emperor has no robes: Justice Antonin Scalia and Citizens United
- Scarier than Scalia: introducing Justice Clarence Thomas
- What in hell is a strict constructionist?
- Anonymous letter to certain members of the Supreme Court
- The chapter of leftovers: Part III
- The Second Amendment: guns and the NRA
- In conclusion.