Six Amendments the age of madness

Six Amendments the age of madnessFor the first time ever, a retired Supreme Court Justice offers a manifesto on how the Constitution needs to change. By the time of his retirement in June 2010, John Paul Stevens had become the second longest serving Justice in the history of the Supreme Court. Now he draws upon his more than three decades on the Court, during which he was involved with many of the defining decisions of the modern era, to offer a book like none other. Six Amendments

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“This book is a remarkable achievement of investigative reporting and historical writing

Alex Cross

and the entire world hangs in the balance

Councilman Irvin Irving's son jumped or was pushed from a window at the Chateau Marmont

a prostitute is brutally beaten and left for dead in a parking lot

He is never wrong

With astonishing candor

Eager for escape

Not in my backyard -- that's the refrain commonly invoked by property owners who oppose unwanted development

News arrives that the formidable ruler of all worlds

and tormented above all by a longing for his mother