Awards

• Winner of Pulitzer Prize History Category 1969
• Winner of Pulitzer Prize History Category 1969.

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in history and a landmark in the study of constitutional origins, Leonard Levy's now-classic study appears for the first time in paperback. A work of monumental scholarship-broad in scope, thorough, carefully annotated, accurate, and imaginative.-Political Science Quarterly. Vastly learned...critical and reflective...lucid and vigorous...one of the important contributions to historical literature.-Henry Steele Commager.

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Vastly learned...everywhere critical and reflective...written with a style at once lucid and vigorous.--Henry Steele Commager

A matchless contribution to our understanding of the historical background underlying the adoption of a major provision of the Bill of Rights. American Political Science Review A work of meticulous scholarship which makes the experience of centuries past relevant to the legal process of today. -- Paul A. Freund Vastly learned...everywhere critical and reflective...written with a style at once lucid and vigorous. -- Henry Steele Commager A work of monumental scholarshipobroad in scope, thorough, carefully annotated, accurate, and imaginative. Political Science Quarterly A masterful job. -- Oscar Handlin

A matchless contribution to our understanding of the historical background underlying the adoption of a major provision of the Bill of Rights. * American Political Science Review * A work of meticulous scholarship which makes the experience of centuries past relevant to the legal process of today. -- Paul A. Freund Vastly learned...everywhere critical and reflective...written with a style at once lucid and vigorous. -- Henry Steele Commager A work of monumental scholarshipóbroad in scope, thorough, carefully annotated, accurate, and imaginative. * Political Science Quarterly * A masterful job. -- Oscar Handlin

Author Information

Leonard W. Levy is formerly Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional History at Brandeis University and Andrew W. Mellon All-Claremont Professor of Humanities and History at the Claremont Graduate School. His other writings, many of which have also won awards, include The Palladium of Justice, Blasphemy, The Establishment Clause, Freedom of the Press from Zenger to Jefferson, Original Intent and the Framers' Constitution, and Jefferson and Civil Liberties. He lives in Ashland, Oregon.

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