Freedom's Dominion A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
eBook - 2022
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYAn "important, deeply affecting—and regrettably relevant" (New York Times) 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 nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom—their freedom to dominate others. In Freedom’s Dominion, 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....
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Basic Books
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- English
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- OverDrive Resource Page
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- Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
| Adobe EPUB eBook | |
|---|---|
| File Size | 35 GB |
| ISBN | 9781541672819 |
| Release Date | 11/22/2022 |
| Kindle Book | |
| ASIN | B09TZXZR56 |
| Release Date | 11/22/2022 |
| OverDrive Read eBook | |
| ISBN | 9781541672819 |
| Release Date | 11/22/2022 |
