The I Index

Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution

Top of the pile

98

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

99/100

Critics

96/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Elie Mystal

Publisher:

The New Press

Date:

March 1, 2022

The Nation's legal analyst and justice correspondent enumerates what rights we have, what rights Republicans are trying to take away and offers idea for how to stop them—arming readers with the knowledge to defend themselves against conservatives who want everybody to live under the yoke of 18th-century white men.

What The Reviewers Say

Roberta E. Winter,
New York Journal of Books
It is impossible to enjoy reading the constitution more than through the searing perspective of the brilliant Twainesque humor of Elie Mystal.

Kirkus
An irreverent refutation of a document many profess to revere.

Publishers Weekly
The Nation contributor Mystal debuts with a pugnacious and entertaining critique of conservative interpretations of the Constitution.