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The Words That Made Us
America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
Akhil Reed Amar
2021
Basic Books
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Book Review
The Real Authors of the Founding
Americans must live up to “the words that made us.”
by
Brenda M. Hafera
via
Modern Age
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on
June 5, 2026
Book Review
Context and Consequences
On Akhil Reed Amar’s “The Words That Made Us,” a new history of America’s constitutional conversation.
by
Joel Seligman
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
on
August 3, 2021