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Title: The American Language of Rights by Richard A. Primus, Quentin Skinner, Lorraine Daston, Dorothy Ross, James Tully ISBN: 0-521-65250-2 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 29 July, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $60.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Right on.
Comment: I initially thought that this book would succeed only in pointing out the painfully obvious. I like to read such drivel while I exercise because it makes me angry, thereby elevating my heart rate. To my surprise, the book was so engrossing that I stepped from the Nordic Track and nearly completed it in the sauna. The ideas and historical analyses are fresh and convincing. I actually feel as if I learned something important from this book. Highest recommendation.

Rating: 5
Summary: Smart and Substantive
Comment: Richard Primus is a scholar's scholar. The description indicates not esotericism, as in "writer's writer," but exemplarity, as in "gentleman's gentleman." Indeed (though perhaps this strays to the mere possessive) sitting down with his latest book is rather like placing oneself in the hands of Bruce Wayne's butler, Alfred. One may be sure that whatever difficulties arise will be handled with a competence, professionalism, and elegance matched by few and surpassed by none. Whether urbane sophisticate or crusader for justice (and especially if both), the reader will find The American Language of Rights an essential resource, distinguished by both the value of its original contributions and the charity and sophistication of its survey of extant literature. Primus is one of very few writers who, when he canvasses others' views, reliably produces art. In this book he shows again why Primus inter pares is, if not an oxymoron, surely a rare sight indeed.

Rating: 5
Summary: A vivid, rigorous work on rights and their meaning in Americ
Comment: Dr. Primus has pulled off a rare feat. He has written a book that is both intellectually exciting and accessible to the curious general reader. Now, The American Langauge of Rights is not a book to flip through on the Nordic Track, or to read on the Jersey Shore this Labor Day weekend. It is, after all, a serious work of scholarship that is sophisticated in its method, and that ambitiously dives head first into some of the most serious academic debates of our time. But the book also opens a wide window into how "We the People" have talked about politics and rights and our national community over the last 200 or so years. It's as if an Oxford don spent a year in Indiana, learning about American politics and history without ever forgetting what he knew about political theory. Our world is indeed a narrow bridge. While this book will not make us less afraid while walking on it, it should give us all--academics and general readers allike--a fuller, richer sense of why it is the way it is.