Name: American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation (en Inglés)
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Author: Holly Jackson
ISBN: 9780525573098

portada American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Holly Jackson

Editorial

Crown Publishing Group (NY)

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

400

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

23.6 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm

Peso

0.68 kg.

ISBN13

9780525573098

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Siglo xix - c. 1800-c. 1899
Ideologías y movimientos políticos
Historia de américa
Historia social y cultural

American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation (en Inglés)

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A dynamic, timely history of nineteenth-century activists--free-lovers and socialists, abolitionists and vigilantes--and the social revolution they sparked in the turbulent Civil War era "In the tradition of Howard Zinn's people's histories, American Radicals reveals a forgotten yet inspiring past."--Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life and Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SMITHSONIAN On July 4, 1826, as Americans lit firecrackers to celebrate the country's fiftieth birthday, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were on their deathbeds. They would leave behind a groundbreaking political system and a growing economy--as well as the glaring inequalities that had undermined the American experiment from its beginning. The young nation had outlived the men who made it, but could it survive intensifying divisions over the very meaning of the land of the free? A new network of dissent--connecting firebrands and agitators on pastoral communes, in urban mobs, and in genteel parlors across the nation--vowed to finish the revolution they claimed the founding fathers had only begun. They were men and women, black and white, fiercely devoted to causes that pitted them against mainstream America even while they fought to preserve the nation's founding ideals: the brilliant heiress Frances Wright, whose shocking critiques of religion and the institution of marriage led to calls for her arrest; the radical Bostonian William Lloyd Garrison, whose commitment to nonviolence would be tested as the conflict over slavery pushed the nation to its breaking point; the Philadelphia businessman James Forten, who presided over the first mass political protest of free African Americans; Marx Lazarus, a vegan from Alabama whose calls for sexual liberation masked a dark secret; black nationalist Martin Delany, the would-be founding father of a West African colony who secretly supported John Brown's treasonous raid on Harpers Ferry--only to ally himself with Southern Confederates after the Civil War. Though largely forgotten today, these figures were enormously influential in the pivotal period flanking the war, their lives and work entwined with reformers like Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Henry David Thoreau, as well as iconic leaders like Abraham Lincoln. Jackson writes them back into the story of the nation's most formative and perilous era in all their heroism, outlandishness, and tragic shortcomings. The result is a surprising, panoramic work of narrative history, one that offers important lessons for our own time.

Holly Jackson

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Holly Jackson escribe desde muy joven, tanto, que acabó su primera, y mala, novela a los quince años. Vive en Londres y, además de leer y escribir, le gusta jugar a videojuegos y ver documentales sobre crímenes; así puede fingir que es detective.
Su primera novela, Asesinato para principiantes, fue Nº1 del The New York Times.

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