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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in his own words: the definitive collection of his opinions, speeches, and articles on the most essential and vexing legal questions, with an intimate foreword by Justice Elena Kagan “[Scalia’s writings] are as readable today as they were when they first...

We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. But is this common-law mindset, which is appropriate in its place, suitable also in statutory and constitutional interpretation? In a witty and trenchant essay, Justice Scalia answers this question with a resounding negative.

New York, 1920. Quartiere di Hell’s Kitchen, un nome che evoca bolge dantesche e descrive perfettamente una realtà di miseria, speranza e razzismo. È lì che inizia la storia di Mario Puzo, figlio dell’immigrazione italiana e autore de Il padrino, un libro dal successo planetario destinato a fondare il mito di Cosa nostra con cui facciamo i conti tuttora.