American epic : reading the u.s. constitution.
"In 1987, E.L. Doctorow celebrated the Constitution’s bicentennial by reading it. "It is five thousand words long but reads like fifty thousand," he said. Distinguished legal scholar Garrett Epps--himself an award-winning novelist--disagrees. It’s about 7,500 words. And Doctorow "...
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2015
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