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""Longlisted for the Edwards Book Award, Rodel Institute"" ""An extraordinary work. . . . Sunstein carries the novice reader across this difficult terrain without simplifying the subject and manages to let his own passionate views shine through without shortchanging others. The book is an education.""---Jessica T. Mathews, Foreign Affairs ""At a time of impassioned divisiveness over the Constitution, Harvard Law profess Cass Sunstein's How to Interpret the Constitution is a genuinely courteous book. [He] conveys a hopeful sense that open-minded people who give the reasons for their constitutional thinking will make manifest . . . a better constitutional order.""---Richard Blaustein, Washington Lawyer ""Despite the author’s fair-mindedness, it’s clear that his main targets are the originalist and traditionalist arguments that have recently captured the radical right and are overturning decades of settled constitutional law. Is Sunstein’s interpretive scheme strong enough to halt the further advance of originalist and traditionalist thinking on the Supreme Court? Probably not. But it’s a brave, muscular, and compelling roadblock now standing in the way of originalist ideologues. This book should be in the hands of every law student, constitutional lawyer, judge, and Supreme Court justice. One of the most significant works about constitutional interpretation in recent years."" * Kirkus Reviews (Starred review) *

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Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University and the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School. He is the recipient of Norway's Holberg Prize, which is sometimes described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for law and the humanities. His many books include the New York Times bestseller Nudge (with Richard H. Thaler), On Freedom (Princeton), and #Republic (Princeton).

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