University law professor's work earns an Oregon Book Award.(City/Region)(Garrett Epps' nonfiction writing on the Fourteenth Amendment is honored)

From: The Register Guard (Eugene, OR) | Date: December 4, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Karen McCowan The Register-Guard

University of Oregon law professor Garrett Epps has captured an Oregon Book Award for "Democracy Reborn," his suspenseful recounting of the fierce fight for passage of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Epps received the honor Sunday night at an awards ceremony at the Portland Art Museum.

New York author and teacher Robert Polito, who judged Epps' nonfiction category, said "Dem-o-cracy Reborn" ranked among the best "audacious works of historical reconstruction" by summoning the past to recast the present.

"Smart, stylish, dramatic, ...

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