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Book cover of The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America

Randy E. Barnett Author Of A Life for Liberty: The Making of an American Originalist

From Randy's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Randy E. Barnett Why Randy loves this book

Wonderful exploration of virtue as illustrated by the American founders. Both their very self conscious pursuit of a virtuous life and their personal failures to meet their own high standards.

By Jeffrey Rosen ,

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2 authors picked The Pursuit of Happiness as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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A New York Times bestseller and an ā€œenriching…brilliantā€ (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass) examination of what ā€œthe pursuit of happinessā€ meant to our nation’s Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation of our democracy.

The Declaration of Independence identified ā€œthe pursuit of happinessā€ as one of our unalienable rights, along with life and liberty. Jeffrey Rosen, the president of the National Constitution Center, profiles six of the most influential founders—Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton—to show what pursuing happiness meant in their lives,…


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Book cover of Aggressor

Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

Book cover of To Trust the People with Arms

Randy E. Barnett Author Of A Life for Liberty: The Making of an American Originalist

From Randy's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Randy's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Randy E. Barnett Why Randy loves this book

A remarkable narrative about the history of gun regulation and the judicial treatment of the right to keep and bear arms from the Founding to today. Although this is my field, I learned a ton by reading this book.

By Robert J. Cottrol , Brannon P. Denning ,

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1 author picked To Trust the People with Arms as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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In 2007, for the first time in nearly seventy years, the Supreme Court decided to hear a case involving the Second Amendment. The resulting decision in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) was the first time the Court declared a firearms restriction to be unconstitutional on the basis of the Second Amendment. It was followed two years later by a similar decision in McDonald v. City of Chicago, and in 2022, the Court further expanded its support for Second Amendment rights in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen-a decision whose far-reaching implications are still being unraveled. To…


Book cover of The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
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