We the People
National Constitution Center
A weekly show of constitutional debate hosted by National Constitution Center President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen where listeners can hear the best arguments on all sides of the constitutional issues at the center of American life.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the We the People podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 18 episodes
The Pursuit of Liberty
How Hamilton versus Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America
David French
#2 Mentioned in 4 episodes
The Pursuit of Happiness
How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America
Jeffrey Rosen
#3 Mentioned in 3 episodes
The Shadow Docket
Stephen Vladeck
#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Black Reconstruction in America
An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860–1880
Mack H. Jones
W.E.B. Du Bois
#5 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Souls of Black Folk
Héctor Arnau
Patricia H. Hinchey
Eugene F. Provenzo
Slingshot Books
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
W.E.B. Du Bois
Brent Hayes Edwards
Monty
Karl Simrock
Monica M. Elbert
Arnold Rampersad
Shawn Alexander
Prentice Onayemi
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Walter Covell
#6 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Premonition
A Pandemic Story
Michael Lewis
#7 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
#8 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Beyond Elite Law, Access to Civil Justice in America
Samuel Estreicher
#9 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Fifth Risk
Michael Lewis
#10 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Darkened Light of Faith
Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought
Melvin Rogers
#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Anti-intellectualism in American life
Richard Hofstadter
#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Federalist 78
Alexander Hamilton
#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Tolstoy's Calendar of Wisdom
Leo Tolstoy
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Thoughts on government
John Adams
George Wythe
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Waging a Good War
A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
Thomas Ricks
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Revolutionary backlash
Women and Politics in the Early American Republic
Rosemarie Zagarri
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Defending pornography
Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights
Nadine Strossen
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Feds in the Classroom
Neal McCluskey
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
1774
The Long Year of Revolution
Mary Beth Norton
