Jeffrey Rosen

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About The Author

Jeffrey Rosen is the author of eight previous books including the New York Times bestsellers The Pursuit of Happiness and Conversations with RBG. Formerly the President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, he is a professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College, Oxford University, and Yale Law School. His essays and commentaries have appeared in The New York Times Magazine; on NPR; in The New Republic, where he was the legal affairs editor; and in The New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer.

Books by Jeffrey Rosen

The Pursuit of Happiness

How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America

By Jeffrey Rosen
A New York Times bestseller and an “enriching…brilliant” (David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass) examination of what “the pursuit of happiness” meant to our nation’s Founders and how that famous phrase defined their lives and became the foundation o...
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