Recommended Reading – A Bookstore
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 Decision in Philadelphia by Christopher and James Collier |
 The Living U.S. Constitution by Jacob Landynski and Saul Padover |
 Don’t Know Much About History by Kenneth Davis |
 The Bill of Rights by Akhil Amar |
 The Anti-Federalist Papers by Ralph Ketcham (Ed.) |
 The Federalist Papers by Charles Kesler (Ed.) |
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The following categories of books are relevant to the U.S. Constitution and
its related topics:
- Latest Books
- Steve’s Favorites
- Visitor Favorites
- e-Books
- Movies and Music
- Children’s Books
- The United States Constitution
- The Framers and The Critics
- The Legislature
- The Executive
- The Supreme Court
- The Bill of Rights and the Amendments
- Other constitutional topics
- The Declaration of Independence
- The Articles of Confederation
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Latest Books
| Title | Author | Link |
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| America’s Constitution: A Biography | Akhil Reed Amar | Amazon |
| The Truth (With Jokes) | Al Franken | Amazon |
| Using Terri : The Religious Right’s Conspiracy to Take Away Our Rights | Jon Eisenberg | Amazon |
| Plan of Attack | Bob Woodward | Amazon |
| The 37th Amendment: A Novel | Susan Shelley | Amazon |
| Constitutional Law Stories | Michael Dorf | Amazon |
| Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right | Al Franken | Amazon |
Steve’s Favorites
| Title | Author | Link |
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| America (The Book) : A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction | Jon Stewart | Amazon |
| America’s Constitution: A Biography | Akhil Reed Amar | Amazon |
| The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates |
Ralph Ketcham | Amazon |
| The Bill of Rights | Akhil Amar | Amazon |
| Decision at Philadelphia | Christopher Collier, James Collier | Amazon |
| The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States |
Introduction by Pauline Maier | Amazon |
| Don’t Know Much About History : Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned |
Kenneth C. Davis | Amazon |
| An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States |
Charles Beard | Amazon |
| The Federalist Papers : Bantam Classic | Garry Wills, ed. | Amazon |
| The Federalist Papers | Charles Kessler, ed. | Amazon |
| Founding Brothers | Joseph J. Ellis | Amazon |
| Impeachment: A Handbook | Charles L. Black, Jr. | Amazon |
| Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right | Al Franken | Amazon |
| The Living U.S. Constitution | Saul K. Padover and Jacob W. Landynski | Amazon |
| Miracle at Philadelphia | Catherine Drinker Bowen | Amazon |
| Origins of the Bill of Rights | Leonard W. Levy | Amazon |
| The People’s Choice | Jeff Greenfield | Amazon |
| A People’s History of the Supreme Court | Peter Irons | Amazon |
| On Reading the Constitution | Laurence Tribe and Michael Dorf | Amazon |
| The Spirit of 1787 | Milton Lomask | Amazon |
| The Truth (With Jokes) | Al Franken | Amazon |
| Terrorism and the Constitution | David Cole and James Dempsey | Amazon |
| The U.S. Constitution for Everyone | Mort Gerberg | Amazon |
| Using Terri : The Religious Right’s Conspiracy to Take Away Our Rights | Jon Eisenberg | Amazon |
Visitor Favorites
| Title | Author | Link | Recommended By |
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| Four Pillars of Constitutionalism – The Organic Laws of the United States |
Richard H. Cox (ed.) | Amazon | Richard Cox |
| John Adams | David McCullough | Amazon | Ken Grady |
| Original Intent | David Barton | Amazon | Zachary J. Peterson |
| Original Meanings : Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution | Jack N. Rakove | Amazon | Kevin Himebaugh |
| The Tempting of America : The Political Seduction of the Law | Robert H. Bork | Amazon | Herbert Nowell |
| The Turning Point | Scott McMahan Bowman | Amazon | Scott Bowman |
| Extremism Triumphant: The Politics of Slavery and Abortion | Darin Wipperman | Amazon | Darin Wipperman |
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e-Books
| Title | Author | Microsoft Reader | Adobe Reader |
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| The Constitution of the United States of America – 1787 | — | Amazon | N/A |
| The US Declaration of Independence | — | Amazon | Amazon |
| The United States Bill of Rights | — | Amazon | N/A |
| The Federalist Papers | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, James Jay | Amazon | N/A |
| American Notes | Rudyard Kipling | Amazon | Amazon |
| The Star-Spangled Banner | John Carpenter | Amazon | N/A |
| The Mayflower Compact | — | Amazon | N/A |
| The Gettysburg Address | Abraham Lincoln; forword by Gary Wills | Amazon | N/A |
| The Founders’ Almanac | Matthew Spalding ed. | Amazon | N/A |
Movies and Music
| Title | Artist/Actor | Media | Rating | Link |
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| 1776 | William Daniels | VHS Tape | G | Amazon |
| 1776 | William Daniels | DVD | G | Amazon |
| 1776 | Original Broadway Cast | CD | – | Amazon |
| The American Revolution | Lisa Bourgourjian | VHS Tape | N/R | Amazon |
| This Is America, Charlie Brown V. 6 – The Birth of the Constitution |
Peanuts | VHS Tape | N/R | Amazon |
| United States Constitution | VHS Tape | N/R | Amazon |
Children’s Books
| Title | Author | Link |
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| The Bill of Rights (Cornerstones of Freedom) -Children’s- | R. Conrad Stein | Amazon |
| The Constitution of the United States -Children’s- | Karen Judson | Amazon |
| The Declaration of Independence (Cornerstones of Freedom) -Children’s- |
Richard Conrad Stein | Amazon |
| If You Were There When They Signed the Constitution -Children’s- | Elizabeth Levy | Amazon |
The United States Constitution
| Title | Author | Link |
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| American Constitution : It’s Origin and Development | Alfred Hinsey Kelly, Winfred Harbison, Herman Belz | Amazon |
| The American Constitution and Its Provenance | Richard G. Stevens | Amazon |
| A Companion to the United States Constitution and Its Amendments | John R. Vile | Amazon |
| The Constitution of the United States | Harold J. Spaeth, Edward Conrad Smith | Amazon |
| The Constitution of the United States : A Primer for the People | David P. Currie | Amazon |
| The Constitution of the United States : An Introduction | Floyd G. Cullop | Amazon |
| CQ’s Guide to the U.S. Constitution | Ralph Mitchell | Amazon |
| An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States | Charles Austin Beard | Amazon |
| The Exhaustive Concordance to the United States Constitution : With Topical Index and Rapid Reference Constitution |
Dennis Bizzoco (Editor) | Amazon |
| The Frozen Republic : How the Constitution Is Paralyzing Democracy | Daniel Lazare | Amazon |
| The People’s Guide to the United States Constitution | Dave Kluge | Amazon |
The Framers and The Critics
| Title | Author | Link |
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| The Anti Federalists : Critics of the Constitution, 1781-1788 | Jackson Turner Main | Amazon |
| Are We to Be a Nation : The Making of the Constitution | Richard B. Bernstein, Kym S. Rice | Amazon |
| The Complete Bill of Rights : The Drafts, Debates, Sources, and Origins |
Neil H. Cogan (Editor) | Amazon |
| Creating the Bill of Rights : The Documentary Record from the First Federal Congress |
Helen E. Veit (Editor), Kenneth R. Bowling, Charlene B. Bickford (Editor) |
Amazon |
| Creating the Constitution : The Convention of 1787 and the First Congress |
Thornton Anderson | Amazon |
| The Creation of the Constitution : Opposing Viewpoints | William Dudley (Editor) | Amazon |
| The Debate on the Constitution : Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification, Part One |
Bernard Bailyn (Editor) | Amazon |
| The Debate on the Constitution : Federalist and Antifederalist Speeches, Articles, and Letters During the Struggle over Ratification, Part Two |
Bernard Bailyn (Editor) | Amazon |
| The Federalist Papers | Alexander Hamilton | Amazon |
| 1776 | David McCullough | Amazon |
| Founding Brothers | Joseph J. Ellis | Amazon |
| Founding Mothers | Cokie Roberts | Amazon |
| American Sphinx : The Character of Thomas Jefferson | Joseph J. Ellis | Amazon |
| His Excellency : George Washington | Joseph J. Ellis | Amazon |
| John Jay : Founding Father | Walter Stahr | Amazon |
| John Adams | David McCullough | Amazon |
| Alexander Hamilton | Ron Chernow | Amazon |
| Benjamin Franklin : An American Life | Walter Isaacson | Amazon |
The Legislature
| Title | Author | Link |
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| The American Speakership : The Office in Historical Perspective | Ronald M. Peters | Amazon |
| Congress, the Constitution, & the Supreme Court | Charles Warren | Amazon |
| Civil Rights, the Constitution, and Congress, 1863-1869 | Earl M. Maltz | Amazon |
| Arguing About Slavery : John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress |
William Lee Miller | Amazon |
| The Citizen’s Guide to Lobbying Congress | Donald E. Dekieffer | Amazon |
| Congress, the Press, and the Public | Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein (Editor) | Amazon |
| Contest for Constitutional Authority : The Abortion and War Powers Debates |
Susan R. Burgess | Amazon |
| The Making of an American Senate : Reconstitutive Change in Congress, 1787-1841 |
Elaine K. Swift | Amazon |
| The Senate of the United States : A Bicentennial History | Richard A. Baker | Amazon |
The Executive
| Title | Author | Link |
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| The American Presidency : Origins and Development, 1776-1993 | Sidney M. Milkis, Michael Nelson | Amazon |
| At the President’s Side : The Vice Presidency in the Twentieth Century |
Timothy Walch (Editor) | Amazon |
| The Constitution and the American Presidency | Martin Fausold, Alan Shank | Amazon |
| Constitutional Conflicts Between Congress and the President | Louis Fisher | Amazon |
| The People’s Choice | Jeff Greenfield | Amazon |
| Powers of the Presidency | compiled by The Congressional Quarterly | Amazon |
| The President, Congress and the Constitution : Power and Legitimacy in American Politics |
Christopher H. Pyle and Richard M Pious | Amazon |
| The President : Office and Powers, 1787-1984 | Edward Corwin | Amazon |
| The Starr Report : The Findings of Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr on President Clinton and the White House Scandals with Analysis by the Staff of The Washington Post | Kenneth Starr | Amazon |
The Supreme Court
| Title | Author | Link |
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| Congress, the Constitution, & the Supreme Court | Charles Warren | Amazon |
| The Constitution in the Supreme Court; The First Hundred Years, 1789-1888 |
David P. Currie | Amazon |
| Criminal Procedure and the Constitution, 1997 : Leading Supreme Court Cases and Introductory Text |
Jerold H. Israel | Amazon |
| Furman V. Georgia : The Death Penalty and the Constitution | Burt M. Henson, Ross R. Olney | Amazon |
| The Living Constitution : Landmark Supreme Court Decisions | Peter P. Sgroi | Amazon |
| A People’s History of the Supreme Court | Peter Irons | Amazon |
The Bill of Rights and the Amendments
| Title | Author | Link |
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| The Amendments to the Constitution : A Commentary | George Anastaplo | Amazon |
| The Bill of Rights : Original Meaning and Current Understanding | Eugene W. Hickok | Amazon |
| The Bill of Rights : What It Is, What It Means, and How It’s Been Misused |
Shannon Leigh Fallon | Amazon |
| The Bill of Rights in Modern America : After 200 Years | David J. Bodenhamer, James W. Ely (Editor) | Amazon |
| The Bill of Rights in the Modern State | Geoffrey R. Stone, Richard A. Epstein, Cass R. Sunstein (Editor) | Amazon |
| The Bill of Rights | Akhil Amar | Amazon |
| Constitutional Brinkmanship : Amending the Constitution by National Convention |
Russell L. Caplan | Amazon |
| Encyclopedia of Constitutional Amendments, Proposed Amendments, and Amending Issues, 1789-1995 |
John R. Vile | Amazon |
| Gun Control and the Constitution : Sources and Explorations on the Second Amendment |
Robert J. Cottrol (Editor) | Amazon |
| The Twenty-Fifth Amendment : Its Complete History and Earliest Applications |
John D. Feerick | Amazon |
Other Constitutional Topics
| Title | Author | Link |
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| 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About American History | John A. Garraty | Amazon |
| Affirmative Action : Social Justice or Reverse Discrimination? | Francis J. Beckwith (Editor), Todd E. Jones (Editor) | Amazon |
| The Alchemy of Race and Rights | Patricia J. Williams | Amazon |
| Constitutions of the World : A Philadelphia Constitution Foundation Book |
Albert P. Blaustein | Amazon |
| Don’t Know Much About History : Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned |
Kenneth C. Davis | Amazon |
| The First Impeachment : The Constitution’s Framers and the Case of Senator William Blount |
Buckner F. Melton | Amazon |
| Japanese Americans Struggle for Equality | Liane Hirabayashi | Amazon |
| Recapturing the Constitution; Race, Religion, and Abortion Reconsidered |
Stephen B. Presser | Amazon |
| Rethinking Abortion : Equal Choice, the Constitution, and Reproductive Politics |
Mark A. Graber | Amazon |
| The Right to Privacy : Gays, Lesbians, and the Constitution | Vincent J. Samar | Amazon |
| A Well Regulated Militia : The Battle over Gun Control | William Weir | Amazon |
The Declaration of Independence
| Title | Author | Link |
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| American Scripture : Making the Declaration of Independence | Pauline Maier | Amazon |
| The Declaration of Independence with Short Biographies of its Signers | Benson Lossing | Amazon |
| To Secure These Rights : The Declaration of Independence | Scott Douglas Gerber, Henry Julian Abraham | Amazon |
| Unlocking the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence | Robert M. Goldberg, Richard M. Haynes | Amazon |
The Articles of Confederation
| Title | Author | Link |
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| The Articles of Confederation; An Interpretation of the Social-Constitutional History of the American Revolution 1774-1781 |
Merrill Jensen | Amazon |
| A Politics of Tensions : The Articles of Confederation and American Political Ideas |
Robert W. Hoffert | Amazon |
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