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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FINALIST  “Essential and fresh and vital . . . It is the argument of this important book that until Americans can reimagine rights, there is no path forward, and there is, especially, no way to get race right. No peace, no justice.”—from the foreword by Jill Lepore, New York Times best-selling author of These Truths: A History of the United States

An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how our approach to rights is dividing America, and shows how we can build a better system of justice.

You have the right to remain silent—and the right to free speech. The right to worship, and to doubt. The right to be free from discrimination, and to hate. The right to life, and the right to own a gun.


Rights are a sacred part of American identity. Yet they also are the source of some of our greatest divisions. We belie

How Rights Went Wrong

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      Publisher: HarperCollins
      Publication Date: 3/15/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780358699293, 978-0358699293
      ISBN10: 0358699290
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      Law Constitution Constitutional law and human rights Constitution: government and the state

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FINALIST  “Essential and fresh and vital . . . It is the argument of this important book that until Americans can reimagine rights, there is no path forward, and there is, especially, no way to get race right. No peace, no justice.”—from the foreword by Jill Lepore, New York Times best-selling author of These Truths: A History of the United States

      An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how our approach to rights is dividing America, and shows how we can build a better system of justice.

      You have the right to remain silent—and the right to free speech. The right to worship, and to doubt. The right to be free from discrimination, and to hate. The right to life, and the right to own a gun.


      Rights are a sacred part of American identity. Yet they also are the source of some of our greatest divisions. We belie

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