Description: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY! An "important, deeply affecting-and regrettably relevant" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of non-white people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom-their freedom to dominate others.In Freedom's Dominion, prizewinning historian Jefferson Cowie traces this complex saga by focusing on a quintessentially American place: Barbour County, Alabama, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace. In a land shaped by settler colonialism and chattel slavery, freedom became a weapon. With freedom as their cry, white Americans seized Native lands, championed secession, overthrew Reconstruction, questioned the New Deal, and fought against the civil rights movement.Through a riveting account of two centuries of local clashes between white people and federal authorities, Freedom's Dominion offers a radically new history of federal power, democracy, and American freedom. This history summons us today to embrace a vigorous model of American citizenship, backed by a federal government that is not afraid to fight the many incarnations of the freedom to dominate.
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EAN: 9781541605121
UPC: 9781541605121
ISBN: 9781541605121
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Book Title: Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize) : a Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
Number of Pages: 512 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication Year: 2024
Topic: United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Civil Rights, General, African American
Item Height: 1.3 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, History
Item Weight: 15.9 Oz
Item Length: 8.2 in
Author: Jefferson Cowie
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
