Adam Liptak Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Adam Liptak on XSupreme Court reporter for The New York Times

Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism
Stephen BreyerThe book is a sustained critique of the current court’s approach to the law, one that he said fetishizes the texts of statutes and the Constitution, reading them woodenly, without a common-sense appreciation of their purpose and consequences.
Hardcover, 2024
$32.00Member price:$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times V. Sullivan
Samantha BarbasThree glimpses of Martin Luther King in "Actual Malice," Samantha Barbas's fascinating history of New York Times v. Sullivan:
Hardcover, 2023
$29.95Member price:$29.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Achievement Gap in U.S. Education: Canaries in the Mine
Mano SinghamRenata Adler’s “G. Gordon Liddy in America,” in which she shadowed him sympathetically on a 1980 book tour, was killed by The New Yorker but in the end appeared in her 2001 collection “Canaries in the Mineshaft.” Fact-checking held up. https://t.co/ofeLslO3BA
Paperback, 2005
$53.00Member price:$50.35 + Free shipping5% off