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The Five Best Books on the Constitution

Christopher Wolfe's book, The Rise of Modern Judicial Review has been named by the Wall Street Journal one of the five best books on the Constitution. Though the book was written before Spence Publishing was founded and so, alas, was not published by us, we still take credit for having an author of Professor Wolfe's caliber on our list. As Robert Bork writes:

Mr. Wolfe's critique of the court and the academic defenders of its activism defies easy summation precisely because of its comprehensiveness, erudition and analytical rigor.

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Steven Vincent

Tomorrow, December 31, would have been Steven Vincent's 50th birthday. Steven, as you may recall was murdered in Iraq on August 2.

This is an interview with Steven's wife, Lisa Ramaci, from early in December.

The Book on Phyllis Schlafly

Princeton University Press has published a book on Phyllis Schlafly. In a review for First Things, Charlotte Allen captures one of the things that we like best about Mrs. Schlafly:

Donald T. Critchlow’s impressively researched Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism, a narrative of Schlafly’s political career, explains that it was this unyielding quality of hers—her resolute refusal to cultivate the intellectual and cultural elites of either coast, even the conservative intellectual and cultural elites who were her natural ideological allies—that provided the astonishing power that she managed to wield in American politics for more than three decades.

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