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(1919-2015) Author. Walter Berns was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died in Bethesda, Maryland.

Full Name

Walter Berns

Locations

Tompkins

Author's Timeline

1919

BIRTH

Walter Berns was born in Chicago, Illinois, on May 3, 1919.

1957

LITWORK

Freedom, Virtue, And The First Amendment
Louisiana State University Press

Nonfiction.

1959

OTHER

Professor Berns taught at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, from 1959 until 1969.

1976

LITWORK

The First Amendment And The Future Of American Democracy
Basic Books, New York, New York
0465024106 / 978-0465024100
Nonfiction.

1979

LITWORK

For Capital Punishment: Crime And The Morality Of The Death Penalty
Basic Books
0465024734 / 978-0465024735
Nonfiction.

1984

LITWORK

In Defense Of Liberal Democracy
AEI Press, Washington, District of Columbia
068558979X / 978-0685589793
Nonfiction.

1991

LITWORK

Taking The Constitution Seriously
Simon & Schuster Trade

Nonfiction.

2001

LITWORK

Making Patriots
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois
0226044378 / 978-0226044378
Nonfiction.

2006

LITWORK

Democracy And The Constitution
AEI Press, Washington, District of Columbia
0844742392 / 978-0844742397
Collection of essays.

2015

DEATH

Walter Berns died at his home in Bethesda, Maryland, on January 10, 2015.

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