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Reviewed by Keith E. Whittington | Book Review | The Indiana Magazine of History, 105.3 | The History Cooperative
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The Age of Impeachment
American Constitutional Culture since 1960

By David E. Kyvig
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008. Pp. xiii, 482. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

Historian David Kyvig is the author of an award-winning book on federal constitutional amendments, Explicit and Authentic Acts (1996), which provides perhaps our best study of the general history of the amendments process and the amendments to the U.S. Constitution. In his new book, Kyvig notes that amendments are one "repair device" that was built into the Constitution to be used if the instrument failed to function as expected or desired (p. vii). The impeachment mechanism, he suggests, is another. And thus this study of impeachments is a follow-up of sorts to his earlier examination of amendments and a consideration of how our experience with these features of the Constitution have both realized and deviated from the purposes and expectations that led to their inclusion in the document in the first place. . . .
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