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S'està carregant… The Grouchy Historian: An Old-Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right-Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs (2017)de Ed Asner
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. I needed this book. I needed to hear Lou Grant get on a rant about the current state of politics. The Eds, Asner and Weinberger, came through for me. They brought in both Lou Grants, the funny one from “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and the serious one from “Lou Grant”. Since 2007 I have primarily read academic histories and primary documents like Payne’s “Common Sense”. In fact the two books I read immediately before “The grouchy historian : an old-time lefty defends our Constitution against right-wing hypocrites and nutjobs” were “Civic ideals : conflicting visions of citizenship in U.S. history” by Rogers M. Smith and Peter H. Iron’s “A people's history of the Supreme Court : the men and women whose cases and decisions have shaped our Constitution”, not exactly light bedtime reading. I was not sure what to expect from an actor and a Hollywood script writer. Would “The Grouchy Historian” be as riddled with errors as any of the right wing screeds produced to suck money from Fox followers? Not at all. In the introduction Asner discusses the preparations, the research, he did to write this book. Even without reading “The Federalist Papers” from cover to cover, after all as he pointed out, he is 86 years old, he and Weinberger have written a well reasoned and informed rebuttal to the nonsense spewing from the GOP. I was concerned about chapter seven, ‘The Writing of the Constitution: Notes from the Constitutional Convention as recorded by Billey, Slave to James Madison, May 6 to September 17, 1787’. Why fictionalize a journal entry, even one that COULD have been written? Why not write about the Convention? It took me some time to see what they were doing, when I did I literally took a break from reading to tell my wife how brilliant the book was. Read this book and over the holidays you will be rewarded by being able to explain to THAT relative that the Constitution was written precisely to raise taxes and create a stronger central government. The Articles of Confederation, the failed original set of laws of the United States failed exactly because it was to weak and the federal government begging the states for funding. You will learn what the hell a “Strict Constructionist is” and how entertaining reading Supreme Court decisions can be. (They can also be very disheartening) Remember, the Constitution is only as good as the people sworn to protect it. These days that line brings tears to my eyes. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
In "an unabashedly biased, deeply researched book" (SF Gate), Ed Asner--the actor who starred as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show--reclaims the Constitution from the right-wingers who think that they and only they know how to interpret it. Ed Asner, a self-proclaimed dauntless Democrat from the old days, figured that if the right-wing wackos are wrong about voter fraud, Obama's death panels, and climate change, they are probably just as wrong about what the Constitution says. There's no way that two hundred-plus years later, the right-wing ideologues know how to interpret the Constitution. On their way home from Philadelphia the people who wrote it couldn't agree on what it meant. What was the president's job? Who knew? All they knew was that the president was going to be George Washington and as long as he was in charge, that was good enough. When Hamilton wanted to start a national bank, Madison told him that it was unconstitutional. Both men had been in the room when the Constitution was written. And now today there are politicians and judges who claim that they know the original meaning of the Constitution. Are you kidding? In The Grouchy Historian, Ed Asner leads the charge for liberals to reclaim the Constitution from the right-wingers who use it as their justification for doing whatever terrible thing they want to do, which is usually to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted. It's about time someone gave them hell and explained that progressives can read, too. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)342.7302Social sciences Law Constitutional and administrative law North America Constitutional law--United States Basic instruments of Government, the US constitutionLCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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I borrowed this book from the library. If one is interested in knowing more about the Constitution, the people who wrote it and the desired goals, there are more scholarly books that have been published. ( )