How Rights Went Wrong Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart

Jamal Greene, Ryan Vincent Anderson

eAudio - 2021

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FINALIST | "Essential and fresh and vital . . . It is the argument of this important book that until Americans can reimagine rights, there is no path forward, and there is, especially, no way to get race right. No peace, no justice."—from the foreword by Jill Lepore, New York Times best-selling author of These Truths: A History of the United States An eminent constitutional scholar reveals how our approach to rights is dividing America, and shows how we can build a better system of justice. You have the right to remain silent—and the right to free speech. The right to worship, and to doubt. The right to be free from discrimination, and to hate. The right to life, and the right to ...own a gun. Rights are a sacred part of American identity. Yet they also are the source of some of our greatest divisions. We believe that holding a right means getting a judge to let...

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Published
HarperAudio
Language
English
Main Authors
Jamal Greene, Ryan Vincent Anderson
Online Access
OverDrive Resource Page
Format
MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size320 GB
Parts10
ISBN9780358450443
Release Date3/16/2021
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size320 GB
ISBN9780358450443
Release Date3/16/2021