American radicals how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation
"A character-driven narrative history about the nineteenth-century radicals--from Fanny Wright and Henry David Thoreau to John Brown and William Lloyd Garrison--who demanded that the United States live up to its revolutionary ideals, and what their successes and failures can teach us today"--
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Crown,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A second and more glorious revolution
- Part I. Foul oppression in the wind of freedom, 1817-1840. A tremendous no
- One bold lady-man
- O America, your destruction is at hand!
- To break every yoke
- Part II. Infidel utopian free lovers, 1836-1858. Coming out from the world
- Brook Farm on fire
- Wheat bread and seminal losses
- Marriage slavery and all other queer things
- Part III. Abolition war, 1848-1865. The aliened American
- Treason will not be treason much longer
- The provisional United States
- Under the flag
- Part IV. The radicals' reconstruction, 1865-1877. To write justice in the American heart
- A revolution going backwards
- This electric uprising
- Conclusion: On radical failure.
