Book Info enlarge picture America's Constitution : A Biography   Author: Akhil Reed Amar ISBN: 1400062624 Format: Publish Date:         /bookfreeway/freewaycompare?isbn=1400062624&src=America's+Constitution+:+A+Biography          Book Review From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. You can read the U.S. Constitution, including its 27 amendments, in about a half-hour, but it takes decades of study to understand how this blueprint for our nation's government came into existence. Amar, a 20-year veteran of the Yale Law School faculty, has that understanding, steeped in the political history of the 1780s, when dissatisfaction with the Articles of...