The lives and thought of eminent Americans are also recalled (including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Roosevelt), as well as the challenges posed by incidents such as the Dreyfus Affair and monstrosities ...

Examines the nature & effects of the 27 amendments; reflections on the Bill of Rights & the Emancipation Proclamation; plus extensive appendixes of critical documents.

The enduring texts that we in the West repeatedly encounter, especially the most challenging of them, are apt to draw upon, and to illuminate the fundamental assumptions and the enduring questions by which Western Civilization has been ...

"Those desiring to engage in the enterprise of `thinking about the Constitution' in the company of a resourceful and knowledgeable guide will find this book quite interesting and enjoyable.

As he has done in his earlier work, Anastaplo mines the great texts to help us discover who we are and what we should be. Some of the works used are familiar, while others were once better known than they are now.

Thus, The Bible: Respectful Readings provides instruction for analyzing Biblical texts with care. It makes readers aware of both the questions addressed and the relevant evidence that should be assessed within The Bible.

The Appendices reinforce these inquiries by providing reminders of how distinguished commentators and others have tried to deal with critical questions noticed in the Essays of this book.

Tapes of thirteen conversations between Simcha Brudno and George Anastaplo recorded at University of Chicago Regenstein Library, March 23, 200 and May 3, 2001, transcribed by Adam Reinherz.

Anastaplo's overriding concern here is to show how one can be moral without being either cranky or moralistic.