![]() ![]() Grantee American Philosophical Society, Social Science Research Council, American Council Learned Societies Fulbright professor. Sebastian de Grazia, American political philosopher, writer. Satirical, intelligent, and sure-handed, A Country with No Name combines history and literature, politics and law to reinvigorate our best traditions. Their relationship unrolls in so humorous and seductive a way that only a musty academic could object. John's unsettling tales arouse more in her disciple than intellectual curiosity. ![]() Through these "tutorials" de Grazia passes in review our most revered heroes-Jefferson, Washington, Marshall, Lincoln, and Thoreau-revealing the complexity of their characters. ![]() Her message: that the Constitution was itself unconstitutional, and that its authors' inability to choose a name for the republic muddied the document's meaning for the future ahead. John, a beguiling British graduate student, will reveal to him the untold story of American Constitutional history. Nineteen-year-old Oliver Huggins is in for the tutorial of his life. In an imaginative and masterful work of history, Pulitzer Prize-winner Sebastian de Grazia has created two memorable characters. (In an imaginative and masterful work of history, Pulitzer.) A Country With No Name: Tales from the Constitution ![]()
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