Here are some of our editors’ and reviewers’ top picks so far this year for policy and political nonfiction.
James Wilson
Posted inBooks
The Most Important Founder You’ve Never Heard Of
James Wilson, later a Supreme Court justice, signed the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. He presaged Lincoln by insisting the former owed much to the latter.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Great Might-Have-Been of the Constitutional Convention
The U.S. Senate was almost structured very differently in ways that would have dramatically altered the chamber and America.
