We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution Hardcover – (JILL LEPORE/WH) kirkwood He ordered his subordinates to

He ordered his subordinates to forego efforts to capture the capital of Richmond in favor of annihilating Lee’s command

from Walt Whitman and Mark Twain to Grantland Rice and Ring Lardner

“Lee is Trapped

In a series of character-driven chapters

and after spending two decades researching letters

We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution Hardcover – (JILL LEPORE/WH) kirkwood He ordered his subordinates toThe U. S. Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world but also one of the most difficult to amend. Jill Lepore, Harvard professor of history and law, explains why in We the People, the most original history of the Constitution in decadesand an essential companion to her landmark history of the United States, These Truths. Published on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the nations foundingthe anniversary, too, of the first state