Author Event with Jill Lepore

Each ticket ($30) includes event admission, a signed copy of We The People, and a donation to the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation.

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Additional books will be available for purchase courtesy of Mac’s Backs – Books on Coventry.

For questions about accessibility or to request accommodations for individuals with hearing, visual or mobility impairments, please email ZXZlbnRzIHwgY3V5YWhvZ2FsaWJyYXJ5ICEgb3Jn.

NO REFUNDS. If you are unable to attend the event, please contact ZXZlbnRzIHwgY3V5YWhvZ2FsaWJyYXJ5ICEgb3Jn to claim the book(s) included with your ticket purchase and schedule pick up from the CCPL branch of your choice. Books not claimed within 7 days of the event will be donated to the Library.

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About the Author

Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. Her many books include the international bestseller, These Truths: A History of the United States.

The U.S. Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world—and one of the most difficult to amend. At what cost? In We the People, Harvard professor of history and law Jill Lepore argues that the philosophy of amendment is foundational to American constitutionalism. Challenging both originalism and the Supreme Court’s monopoly on constitutional interpretation, Lepore argues that the framers never intended for the Constitution to be kept, like a butterfly, under glass, but instead expected that future generations would be forever tinkering with it, improving the machinery of government. At the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding and in an account as radical as Charles Beard’s An Economic Interpretation of the United States, Lepore offers a sweeping, lyrical, and democratic constitutional history, telling the stories of generations of Americans who have attempted everything from abolishing the Electoral College to guaranteeing environmental rights, hoping to mend America by amending its Constitution.

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