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Adam Liptak Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Supreme Court reporter for The New York Times

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Book Cover for: Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism, Stephen Breyer

Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism

Stephen Breyer
Adam LiptakAdam Liptak

The 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
Book Cover for: Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times V. Sullivan, Samantha Barbas

Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times V. Sullivan

Samantha Barbas
Adam LiptakAdam Liptak

Three 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)
Book Cover for: Achievement Gap in U.S. Education: Canaries in the Mine, Mano Singham

Achievement Gap in U.S. Education: Canaries in the Mine

Mano Singham
Adam LiptakAdam Liptak

Renata 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