
The Grouchy Historian
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Ed Asner, a self-proclaimed dauntless Democrat from the old days, figured that if the right-wing wackos are wrong about voter fraud, Obama's death panels, and climate change, they are probably just as wrong about what the Constitution says. There's no way that two hundred-plus years later, the right-wing ideologues know how to interpret the Constitution. On their way home from Philadelphia the people who wrote it couldn't agree on what it meant. What was the president's job? Who knew? All they knew was that the president was going to be George Washington and as long as he was in charge, that was good enough. When Hamilton wanted to start a national bank, Madison told him that it was unconstitutional. Both men had been in the room when the Constitution was written. And now today there are politicians and judges who claim that they know the original meaning of the Constitution. Are you kidding?
In The Grouchy Historian, Ed Asner leads the charge for liberals to reclaim the Constitution from the right-wingers who use it as their justification for doing whatever terrible thing they want to do, which is usually to comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted. It's about time someone gave them hell and explained that progressives can read, too.
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- Intro
- Dedication
- 1. Introduction: Why I Wrote This Book
- 2. The Founders and Framers: Who Were Those Guys?
- 3. Snapshots of Life in Philadelphia, 1787
- 4. Heckling the Right Wing: Their Top Ten Talking Points and My Top Ten Comebacks
- 5. God and the Constitution, Part I: Epistle to the Christian Right
- 6. God and the Constitution, Part II: Epistle to the Mormons
- 7. The Writing of the Constitution: Notes from the Constitutional Convention as Recorded by Billey, Slave to James Madison, May 6 to September 17, 1787
- 8. Charles Beard's Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, Part I: Meeting the Framers
- 9. Charles Beard's Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, Part II: Following the Money
- 10. The Chapter of Leftovers: Part I
- 11. Open Letter to Senator Ted Cruz Written in the Style of 1787
- 12. The Constitution According to Ben Carson, MD
- 13. Rewriting the Constitution: Mark Levin and the Asner Amendments
- 14. Immigration and Ann Coulter: A Review That Was Never Published in the New York Times Book Review
- 15. The Shocking Truth About the Bill of Rights
- 16. The Bill of Rights in the Real World
- 17. The Chapter of Leftovers: Part II
- 18. The Emperor Has No Robes: Justice Antonin Scalia and Citizens United
- 19. Scarier Than Scalia: Introducing Justice Clarence Thomas
- 20. What in Hell Is a Strict Constructionist?
- 21. Anonymous Letter to Certain Members of the Supreme Court
- 22. The Chapter of Leftovers: Part III
- 23. The Second Amendment: Guns and the NRA
- 24. In Conclusion
- Appendix: The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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