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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Story of American Freedom (originale 1998; edizione 1999)di Eric Foner
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Foner reminds us that, in the American context, “freedom” is a value whose meaning and scope has been contested over time. To recognize that plantation owners and their slaves, religious fundamentalists and saloon keepers, union organizers and factory owners, suffragists and Birchers have all defined freedom differently at different times is to acknowledge the complexities and ambiguities inherent in a pluralist polity. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"Over the course of our history, freedom has been a living truth for some Americans and a cruel mockery for others. In Eric Foner's stirring history, freedom's story is not the simple unfolding of a timeless truth, but an open-ended history of accomplishment and failure. Its impetus lies in the aspirations and sacrifice of millions of Americans, celebrated and anonymous, who have sought freedom's blessings. Its meaning is shaped not only in congressional debates and political treatises, but on plantations and picket lines, in parlors and bedrooms. Its cast of characters ranges from Thomas Jefferson to Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan, from former slaves seeking to breathe real meaning into emancipation to the union organizers, freedom riders, and women's rights advocates of our time."--Jacket. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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