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The Story of American Freedom

English · Paperback / Softback

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Informationen zum Autor Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University, where he earned his B.A. and Ph.D. In his teaching and scholarship, he focuses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and nineteenth-century America. He has served as president of the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association. In 2006 he received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching from Columbia University. His most recent books are The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, winner of the Bancroft and Lincoln Prizes and the Pulitzer Prize for History; Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad, winner of the New York Historical Society Book Prize; The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution; and the upcoming Our Fragile Freedoms: Essays. Klappentext From the Revolution to our own time, freedom has been America's strongest cultural bond and its most perilous fault line, a birthright for some Americans and a cruel mockery for others. Eric Foner takes freedom not as a timeless truth but as a value whose meaning and scope have been contested throughout American history. His sweeping narrative shows freedom to have been shaped not only in congressional debates and political treatises but also on plantations and picket lines, in parlors and bedrooms, by our acknowledged leaders and by former slaves, union organizers, freedom riders, and women's rights activists.A stirring history of America focused on its animating impulse: freedom.

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Authors Eric Fonder, Eric Foner
Publisher Norton and Co Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 03.10.1999
 
EAN 9780393319620
ISBN 978-0-393-31962-0
Dimensions 140 mm x 210 mm x 25 mm
Series Norton Paperback
Norton Paperback
Subjects Non-fiction book
Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education

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