The Grouchy Historian: An Old-time Lefty Defends Our Constitution Against Right-wing Hypocrites And Nutjobs
- Autor: Ed Asner
- Narrador: Ed Asner
- Editora: Simon & Schuster
- Duração: 8:29:07
Sinopse
In “an unabashedly biased, deeply researched book” (SF Gate), Ed Asner—the actor who starred as Lou Grant on 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.
Capítulos
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GrouchyHistorian 01 Open
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GrouchyHistorian 02 Chapter1
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GrouchyHistorian 03 Chapter2
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GrouchyHistorian 04 Chapter3
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GrouchyHistorian 05 Chapter4
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GrouchyHistorian 06 Chapter5
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GrouchyHistorian 07 Chapter6
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GrouchyHistorian 08 Chapter7a
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GrouchyHistorian 09 Chapter7b
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GrouchyHistorian 10 Chapter8
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GrouchyHistorian 11 Chapter9
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GrouchyHistorian 12 Chapter10
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GrouchyHistorian 13 Chapter11
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GrouchyHistorian 14 Chapter12
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GrouchyHistorian 15 Chapter13
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GrouchyHistorian 16 Chapter14
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GrouchyHistorian 17 Chapter15
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GrouchyHistorian 18 Chapter16
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GrouchyHistorian 19 Chapter17
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GrouchyHistorian 20 Chapter18
Duração: 10min