Carol Berkin's "The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America's Liberties"

Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor of History, Emerita at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is the author of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution, First Generations, Jonathan Sewall, and Wondrous Beauty: The Life and Adventures of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte.

Here she dreamcasts an adaptation of her new book, The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America's Liberties:

Recently I asked the author about what she was reading. Berkin's reply:

Benedict Cumberbatch as the book's hero James Madison; Robert Downey Jr as the irascible Elbridge Gerry; Mark Harmon as Roger Sherman.

Learn more about The Bill of Rights: The Fight to Secure America's Liberties.

My Book, The Movie: Wondrous Beauty.

Writers Read: Carol Berkin (February 2014).

--Marshal Zeringue