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An Old-Time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right-Wing Hypocrites and Nutjobs
Simon & Schuster
October 2017
On Sale: October 10, 2017
352 pages
ISBN: 1501166026
EAN: 9781501166020
Kindle: B071Y382R6
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Non-Fiction Memoir | Humor
In the tradition of Al Franken and Michael Moore, Ed
Asner—a.k.a. Lou Grant from The Mary Tyler Moore
Show—reclaims the Constitution from the right-wingers who
think that they and only they know how to interpret it. 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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