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- Objectstaat
- Book Title
- Me the People : One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America
- Publication Name
- Me the People
- Title
- Me the People
- Subtitle
- One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the Unite
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0812981685
- EAN
- 9780812981681
- ISBN
- 9780812981681
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Genre
- History, Humor, Political Science
- Topic
- Topic / Politics, Constitutions, United States / General
- Release Year
- 2013
- Release Date
- 02/07/2013
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 10.4 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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The United States Constitution promised a More Perfect Union. It's a shame no one bothered to write a more perfect Constitution--one that didn't trigger more than two centuries of arguments about what the darn thing actually says. Until now. Perfection is at hand. A new, improved Constitution is here. And you are holding it. But first, some historical context: In the eighteenth century, a lawyer named James Madison gathered his friends in Philadelphia and, over four long months, wrote four short pages: the Constitution of the United States of America. Not bad. In the nineteenth century, a president named Abraham Lincoln freed an entire people from the flaws in that Constitution by signing the Emancipation Proclamation. Pretty impressive. And in the twentieth century, a doctor at the Bethesda Naval Hospital delivered a baby--but not just any baby. Because in the twenty-first century, that baby would become a man, that man would become a patriot, and that patriot would rescue a country . . . by single-handedly rewriting that Constitution. Why? We think of our Constitution as the painstakingly designed blueprint drawn up by, in Thomas Jefferson's words, an "assembly of demigods" who laid the foundation for the sturdiest republic ever created. The truth is, it was no blueprint at all but an Etch A Sketch, a haphazard series of blunders, shaken clean and redrawn countless times during a summer of petty debates, drunken ramblings, and desperate compromise--as much the product of an "assembly of demigods" as a confederacy of dunces. No wonder George Washington wished it "had been made more perfect." No wonder Benjamin Franklin stomached it only "with all its faults." The Constitution they wrote is a hot mess. For starters, it doesn't mention slavery, or democracy, or even Facebook; it plays favorites among the states; it has typos, smudges, and misspellings; and its Preamble, its most famous passage, was written by a man with a peg leg. Which, if you think about it, gives our Constitution hardly a leg to stand on. Pause for laughter.] Now stop laughing. Because you hold in your hands no mere book, but the most important document of our time. Its creator, Daily Show writer Kevin Bleyer, paid every price, bore every burden, and saved every receipt in his quest to assure the salvation of our nation's founding charter. He flew to Greece, the birthplace of democracy. He bused to Philly, the home of independence. He went toe-to-toe (face-to-face) with Scalia. He added nightly confabs with James Madison to his daily consultations with Jon Stewart. He tracked down not one but two John Hancocks--to make his version twice as official. He even read the Constitution of the United States. So prepare yourselves, fellow patriots, for the most significant literary event of the twenty-first, twentieth, nineteenth, and latter part of the eighteenth centuries. Me the People won't just form a More Perfect Union. It will save America. Praise for Me the People "I would rather read a constitution written by Kevin Bleyer than by the sharpest minds in the country."-- Jon Stewart "Bleyer takes a red pencil to democracy's most hallowed laundry list. . . . Uproarious and fascinating." -- Reader's Digest "I knew James Madison. James Madison was a friend of mine. Mr. Bleyer, you are no James Madison. But you sure are a heck of a lot more fun."--Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin , author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Team of Rivals
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0812981685
ISBN-13
9780812981681
eBay Product ID (ePID)
154373275
Product Key Features
Book Title
Me the People : One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Topic / Politics, Constitutions, United States / General
Publication Year
2013
Genre
History, Humor, Political Science
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
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Advance praise for Me the People "I would rather read a constitution written by Kevin Bleyer than by the sharpest minds in the country."- Jon Stewart "The Constitution has served us well for centuries. Thanks to Kevin Bleyer, those days are over."- Stephen Colbert "Two centuries from now, the finest robot documentarians from around the world will climb over one another to make the definitive film on the genesis of Kevin Bleyer's brilliant constitution. Which makes me glad I'm alive today."- Ken Burns , human director of The Civil War, The Congress, and Prohibition "As far as I know, Kevin Bleyer is an American citizen. So why shouldn't he rewrite the Constitution? What do we want? A government controlled by elite, well educated wig-wearers who we all have to bow down to just because they are dead? So I say we give Bleyer a shot."- John Hodgman , New York Times bestselling author and expert on all world knowledge "I knew James Madison. James Madison was a friend of mine. Mr. Bleyer, you are no James Madison. But you sure are a heck of a lot more fun."-Pulitzer Prizewinning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin , author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Team of Rivals "In Me the People, Kevin Bleyer makes a number of good points. And an even larger number of terrible ones. For the safety of the republic, we should all read this, to know what we're up against if a guy like Bleyer ever finds himself in a position of real influence."- Dave Eggers, "I would rather read a constitution written by Kevin Bleyer than by the sharpest minds in the country."-- Jon Stewart "Bleyer takes a red pencil to democracy's most hallowed laundry list. . . . Uproarious and fascinating." -- Reader's Digest "I knew James Madison. James Madison was a friend of mine. Mr. Bleyer, you are no James Madison. But you sure are a heck of a lot more fun."--Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin , author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Team of Rivals "Irresistible . . . an extraordinarily entertaining, enlightening and sometimes even wise combination of eye-opening scholarship about American constitutional history and rambunctious comedy." -- The Buffalo News "The Constitution has served us well for centuries. Thanks to Kevin Bleyer, those days are over."-- Stephen Colbert "Sharp and intensely witty . . . an endlessly enjoyable . . . experience."-- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Two centuries from now, the finest robot documentarians from around the world will climb over one another to make the definitive film on the genesis of Kevin Bleyer's brilliant constitution. Which makes me glad I'm alive today."-- Ken Burns , human director of The Civil War, The Congress, and Prohibition "As far as I know, Kevin Bleyer is an American citizen. So why shouldn't he rewrite the Constitution? What do we want? A government controlled by elite, well educated wig-wearers who we all have to bow down to just because they are dead? So I say we give Bleyer a shot."-- John Hodgman , New York Times bestselling author and expert on all world knowledge "In Me the People, Kevin Bleyer makes a number of good points. And an even larger number of terrible ones. For the safety of the republic, we should all read this, to know what we're up against if a guy like Bleyer ever finds himself in a position of real influence."-- Dave Eggers From the Hardcover edition., "I would rather read a constitution written by Kevin Bleyer than by the sharpest minds in the country."- Jon Stewart "Bleyer takes a red pencil to democracy's most hallowed laundry list. . . . Uproarious and fascinating." - Reader's Digest "I knew James Madison. James Madison was a friend of mine. Mr. Bleyer, you are no James Madison. But you sure are a heck of a lot more fun."-Pulitzer Prizewinning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin , author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Team of Rivals "Irresistible . . . an extraordinarily entertaining, enlightening and sometimes even wise combination of eye-opening scholarship about American constitutional history and rambunctious comedy." - The Buffalo News "The Constitution has served us well for centuries. Thanks to Kevin Bleyer, those days are over."- Stephen Colbert "Sharp and intensely witty . . . an endlessly enjoyable . . . experience."- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Two centuries from now, the finest robot documentarians from around the world will climb over one another to make the definitive film on the genesis of Kevin Bleyer's brilliant constitution. Which makes me glad I'm alive today."- Ken Burns , human director of The Civil War, The Congress, and Prohibition "As far as I know, Kevin Bleyer is an American citizen. So why shouldn't he rewrite the Constitution? What do we want? A government controlled by elite, well educated wig-wearers who we all have to bow down to just because they are dead? So I say we give Bleyer a shot."- John Hodgman , New York Times bestselling author and expert on all world knowledge "In Me the People, Kevin Bleyer makes a number of good points. And an even larger number of terrible ones. For the safety of the republic, we should all read this, to know what we're up against if a guy like Bleyer ever finds himself in a position of real influence."- Dave Eggers
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