America's Constitutional Biography part 3

Here's what others have said about the book. Larry Tribe calls it "brilliant," and "breathtakingly informative. . . . What David McCullough is to John Adams, . . . Akhil Amar is to the Constitution." Alan Dershowitz proclaims the book "wonderful" and "indispensable" and says that Akhil "writes like Jefferson, thinks like Madison, and speaks like Lincoln." Jeff Toobin labels it "gripping"--a "powerful narrative as well as an indispensable research tool." Reviewing the book in the Washington Post, novelist/lawyer Scott Turow describes it as "elegantly written" and "an uncommonly engaging work of scholarship" that "I expect to be taking . . . off my shelf for years to come as an indispensable reference." Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jack Rakove added his own words of admiration in a recent review in The Nation, and inside sources tell me that another favorable review by another prize-winning historian will be appearing later this year. True, not all the major reviews have been as amazingly superlative as the ones I have just quoted, but each one has been, on balance, positive -- no mean feat in a field as contentious as constitutional interpretation.

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