We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ""[Lepore's] 15th book We the People a history of the U.S. Constitution may be her best yet a capacious work that lands at the right moment like a life buoy as our ship of state takes on water."" —Hamilton Cain Los Angeles Times From the best-selling author of These Truths comes We the People a stunning new history of the U.S. Constitution for a troubling new era. The U.S. Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world but also one of the most difficult to amend. Jill Lepore Harvard professor of history and law explains why in We the People the most original history of the Constitution in decades—and an essential companion to her landmark history of the United States These Truths . Published on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding—the anniversary too of the first state constitution