The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties

6 best books like The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties (Mark E. Neely Jr.): A Thousand Acres, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution, The Indian Lawyer, Affliction, Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and Cheat Everybody Else

A Thousand Acres

Author	Jane Smiley
ISBN	1400033837

Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1,000-acre farm--one of the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa--to his three daughters, Caroline, Ginny, and Rose. A man of harsh sensibilities, he carves Caroline out of the deal because she has the nerve to be less than enthusiastic about her...

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

Author	Joseph J. Ellis
ISBN	0679764410

It started when I was reading Ambrose’s Undaunted Courage, this niggling feeling of discomfort I get when reading a book when the author seems to be taking opportunities to lionize his/her subjects – or at the very least, portraying them in a simplistic, single facet. I’ve had this issue with...

Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution

Author	Jack N. Rakove
ISBN	0679781218

From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so,...

The Indian Lawyer

Author	James Welch
ISBN	0393329380

I will hand my Creative Writing degree track this: it opened me up to a plethora of authors and genres that I would have never previously looked twice at. "The Indian Lawyer" is one such book that I may have never looked at had it not been assigned to me. And the result...is gratitude.

This book gives...

Affliction

Author	Russell Banks
ISBN	0060920076

Wade Whitehouse is an improbable protagonist for a tragedy. A well-digger and policeman in a bleak New Hampshire town, he is a former high-school star gone to beer fat, a loner with a mean streak. It is a mark of Russell Banks' artistry and understanding that Wade comes to loom in one's mind as a blue-collar...

Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and Cheat Everybody Else

Author	David Cay Johnston
ISBN	1591840694

The best tax policies money can buy. 2003 book. Many of the worst don't-tax-the-rich laws were enacted under Clinton.

The notes are absurd. They're pointers to newspaper articles! Even if you could find one, it wouldn't have source notes. Johnston repeatedly tells us of malicious tax laws,...