After We the People
How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith
If We the People taught you that America's founding documents are less sacred text than evolving argument, you're ready for the next chapter. The readers who devoured Lepore's unflinching take on constitutional contradictions—liberty proclaimed by slaveholders, democracy built on exclusion—crave history that refuses both cynicism and nostalgia. They want scholarship that reads like pilgrimage, transforming archives into urgent conversations about who we've been and who we're becoming.