Why not? It sounds like a great book to me! Peter Landers writes in the Wall Street Journal Law Blog,
Justice Antonin Scalia would like people to buy his new book—a “significant” once-in-a-century work, in his view—but even before that, he thinks there are two works every American should read.
The two are the “Federalist Papers,” the 1787-88 defense of the Constitution written mostly by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, and Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America,” said the justice in a weekend appearance at the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group holding its annual Washington meeting. . .
Later, when asked what books every American should read, he pronounced it a “disgrace” that so few people are familiar with the Federalist Papers. It’s not good enough to read just the famous installments like No. 48, in which Madison warned against the legislature “drawing all power into its impetuous vortex,” Justice Scalia said; one must read the work cover to cover.
Those still left with time on their hands may wish to purchase “Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts,” by Justice Scalia and Bryan A. Garner, a 567-page tome that lists for $49.95.
The justice said his book, described in this July WSJ article by Jess Bravin, was the first in 100 years comprehensively to gather common-sense canons for interpreting the words of state and federal laws. He contrasted it with the touchy-feely methods of his liberal antagonists.
“You have no idea how crazy modern academic writing is,” he said. “You wouldn’t believe it if it wasn’t in books.”