| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

Constitutionalism and American Culture: Writing the New Constitutional History. Ed. by Sandra F. VanBurkleo, Kermit L. Hall, and Robert J. Kaczorowski. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. xxiv, 439 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-7006-1153-3. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-7006-1154-1.)

This excellent collection of essays was published to honor the constitutional historian Paul Murphy, who died in 1997. As the editors explain in their introduction, Murphy was a pioneer in writing constitutional history that was fully situated in a cultural and political context, a form of constitutional history much more interesting than the lawyerly, doctrinal style that once prevailed. Most of the papers in this volume follow Murphy's lead, by locating individual cases or constitutional doctrines within a dense cultural setting.

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