A.J. Jacobs on "The Year of Living Constitutionally"
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For more than a year now, author A.J. Jacobs pulled on woolen leggings more often than you put on socks. Why? "A couple of years ago, I realized I had never read the American Constitution," he said. "But every day I'd open the news and there's another story about how this 230-year-old document is affecting our lives. And I said, I need to know more about our founding document. And the way I like to learn is, I like to go all-in."
For Jacobs, all-in means total immersion. For his bestselling book, "The Know-It-All," Jacobs spent 18 months reading the entire Encyclopædia Britannica. For "The Year of Living Biblically," he tried to follow all the rules in the Old and New Testaments. And now, his latest immersion: "The Year of Living Constitutionally."
"I do look deeply absurd," he said, dressed for the late 18th century. "But I am also deeply serious about this project. Part of my goal is to get inside the minds of these Founding Fathers as much as I can."
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