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9%OFFGerard N. Magliocca - American Founding Son: John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment - 9781479819911 - V9781479819911
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American Founding Son: John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment

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Description for American Founding Son: John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.

A history of the origins of the 14th Amendment and the the man who helped craft it
John Bingham was the architect of the rebirth of the United States following the Civil War. A leading antislavery lawyer and congressman from Ohio, Bingham wrote the most important part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees fundamental rights and equality to all Americans. He was also at the center of two of the greatest trials in history, giving the closing argument in the military prosecution of John Wilkes Booth’s co-conspirators for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and in the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479819911
SKU
V9781479819911
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About Gerard N. Magliocca
Gerard N. Magliocca is the Samuel R. Rosen Professor at Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He is the author of three books on constitutional law, and his work on Andrew Jackson was the subject of an hour-long program on C-Span’s Book TV.

Reviews for American Founding Son: John Bingham and the Invention of the Fourteenth Amendment
How this leading antislavery lawyer shaped Union policy vis-à-vis the defeated South and wrote most of the amendment guaranteeing equal rights to all Americans.
American History
For someone so involved with the watershed events of 19th-century US history, John A. Bingham has largely escaped modern scholars' notice, even in the current book of Civil War-era commemorations. This oversight ... Read more

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