New Book from Judge Andrew P. Napolitano is NOT Your Grandfather’s History Book
(Nashville, Tenn.) Imagine the U.S. Constitution and laws of the land being twisted to the point where institutionalize racism against African Americans becomes commonplace. Imagine a Supreme Court coming to the conclusion that blacks are not legal persons and therefore do not share the same rights as U.S. citizens. Today, it’s hard to envision such a country and yet, America’s story includes these ugly chapters.
In Dred Scott’s Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom In America (Thomas Nelson), Judge Andrew Napolitano boldly illustrates how the words of this nation’s framers did not, in many cases, match their actions.
Dred Scott’s Revenge is a no-holds-barred look at the role of the government in the denial of freedoms based on race – a riveting guide to the tumultuous history of America’s civil rights journey.
“The real culprit throughout our racial history has been the government,” writes Napolitano. “At every level, at virtually every turn, in every generation, the government selectively chose to enact and enforce laws and inevitably condoned and protected the most horrific abuse imaginable to blacks, and to some of the whites who protested.”
Readers of Dred Scott’s Revenge will learn:
• about the seeds of American slavery
• how the country’s framers failed to adhere to the principles the nation was founded upon
• how appointed judges enforced two sets of laws (fair treatment for whites, unfair treatment for blacks)
• the origins of Jim Crow Laws
• of segregation and rules (for blacks only) in the U.S. military
• the truth about the ugly Tuskegee Experiment
• how both parties have used racial rhetoric to get elected
• how government silence spoke volumes as the nation’s pastime was integrating
Dred Scott’s Revenge includes stories that some writers have hoped readers would not learn; of people demeaned worse than cattle, denied basic free will, crushed or impeded by the government even up to today. Further, Napolitano argues that although the government’s only legitimate function is to protect freedom, time and time again it strays well outside the Constitution, ultimately putting our very freedoms at risk.
About the Author
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano graduated from Princeton University and the University of Notre Dame Law School. He is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge in the history of the State of New Jersey. He has tried over 150 jury trials and has sat in all parts of the Superior Court. For eleven years, he was Adjunct Professor of Law at Seton Hall Law School where he was voted most outstanding professor in three academic years. Judge Napolitano returned to private practice in 1995 and has been the Senior Judicial Analyst for Fox News since 1998 and co-hosts “Brian and the Judge” on Fox radio. Judge Napolitano also lectures nationally, and has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, and many more. He is the author of Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws, the New York Times bestseller The Constitution in Exile: How the Federal Government Has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land, and A Nation of Sheep. To learn more visit www.Judgenap.com.
Contact: Curt Harding
Senior Publicist
(615) 902-2246
charding@thomasnelson.com
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