Akhil Reed Amar in Conversation With David Nierenberg

From "one of our most prodigious constitutional scholars" (Jonathan Eig), the definitive history of how the ideal of birth equality reshaped the American Constitution, from antebellum debates over slavery and secession, to the Civil War and emancipation, to women’s suffrage. In 1840, millions of Black Americans groaned in the chains of slavery. By 1920, millions of American men and women of every race had won the vote. In Born Equal (Basic Books), prizewinning constitutional historian Akhil Reed Amar recounts the dramatic constitutional [...]