Lawrence Goldstone

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About the Author

Lawrence Goldstone has written extensively on Constitutional law and equal rights. His young adult book, Days of Infamy: How a Century of Bigotry Led to Japanese American Internment won the 2023 Carter G. Woodson Book Award and his book On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and the Ravaging of African American Voting Rights, won the 2021 Lillian Smith Book Award. His articles, reviews, and opinion pieces have appeared in The Atlantic, Salon, Slate, New Republic, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, and Miami Herald. Goldstone holds a PhD in Constitutional history from the New School. He has also been a teacher, lecturer, senior member of a Wall Street trading firm, taxi driver, actor, quiz show contestant, and policy analyst at the Hudson Institute.