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Contents
Editor’s Preface
Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer
Introduction
Mary Sarah Bilder
Idea or Practice: A Brief Historiography of Judicial Review
Christine Desan
From Blood to Profit: Making Money in the Practice and Imagery of Early America
Christopher Tomlins
Necessities of State: Police, Sovereignty, and the Constitution
David Quigley
Constitutional Revision and the City: The Enforcement Acts and Urban America, 1870–1894
Michael Willrich
“The Least Vaccinated of Any Civilized Country”: Personal Liberty and Public Heath in the Progressive Era
Ajay K. Mehrotra
Forging Fiscal Reform: Constitutional Change, Public Policy, and the Creation of Administrative Capacity in Wisconsin, 1880–1920
John A. Thompson
Woodrow Wilson and a World Governed by Evolving Law
Anthony Badger
The South Confronts the Court: The Southern Manifesto of 1956
Alan Rogers
State Constitutionalism and the Death Penalty
Donald T. Critchlow and Cynthia L. Stachecki
The Equal Rights Amendment Reconsidered: Politics, Policy, and Social Mobilization in a Democracy
Morton Keller
Governance and Democracy: Public Policy in Modern America
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Chris Roper
reviewed The Constitution And Public Policy In U.S. History on February 12, 2017
The Constitution And Public Policy In U.S. History
It's just barely adequate in size and scope for the enormous and complex topic it sets out to address. The author seems to have only a few overriding concerns in the writing of such a work (maybe he broadens his sphere in his other projects?) He is mainly concerned with white culture vs black culture. Is that the only way to approach American history?
Example: to treat both the history of American magazine publishing and the history of American feminism (and doing justice to neither subject matter) the author devotes a chapter to the career of Fanny Fern, who first revolutionized women's advice columns found in periodicals. Yawn.
There is a good chapter on the Astor Place Riots --but nothing you can't get from the internet. Similarly, the chapter on Billie Holliday. Equally so, the chapters on Charlie Chaplin and Coney Island.
Is all this material not covered better and deeper in other textbooks? Why waste a whole chapter on Archie Bunker, the Jeffersons, and Carl Reiner? Does that really (pun alert) 'give us a good picture' of the television age?
Barely redeeming all this is a chapter devoted to the great Bert Williams of the old vaudeville circuit. Thank goodness for small favors!
This is a decent--if bland-- 'overview' type of textbook helpful in skimming general material such as timelines, births/deaths, general influences of what-on-which. Not good for fine detail and no really bold assertions.
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