William Novak, New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State.
Such traditions can inform a living Constitutionalism that is not confined to the courts, but taken up by executive and legislative branches and social movements of “the People, themselves.” They have in mind anti-feudal and anti-aristocratic movements in the early Republic, Jacksonian movements against monopolies and special privileges, abolitionist agitation against the “slave power,” Reconstruction-era civil rights struggles, labor and Populist movements, the economic bills of rights of the New Deal, and the civil rights. Fishkin and Forbath, both law professors at the University of Texas, aim to revive and refresh egalitarian traditions and movements in America for use in current American politics. Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath, The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy. Robert Gordon, Professor of Law, Emeritus, recommends The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy by Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath, New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American State by William Novak, and The Green Man by Kingsley Amis If you’d like to escape into the past, I recommend Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone, which I may have recommended before it’s one of the first true mystery novels, and is enormously entertaining. Lawrence Friedman, Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law, recommends The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins It’s a story about death-but it’s equally a story about how to live. In this luminous and heartbreaking memoir, Bloom recounts how she fulfilled her husband’s final wish: To help him to die with grace, dignity, and on his own terms. I recommend In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom. McFarland Professor of Law, recommends In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom The book is made even more effective by the visceral poet sensibility that suffuses the text. This book is a prose exploration of our nation’s troubled racial history, and how it lives today in all our consciousness. I highly recommend Clint Smith’s How the Word is Passed.
An exploration of the history, politics and medical uses of psychedelics, the book itself has changed my mind. I’ve enjoyed Michael Pollan’s book, How to Change your Mind. Ralph Richard Banks (BA ’87, MA ’87), Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law, recommends How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan and How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith Looking for a good book or two to dig into this summer? Now in its eleventh year, the Stanford Law School faculty’s Summer Reading List offers up some of our professors’ favorite reads.
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