The story of American freedom

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Title:

The story of American freedom

Author:

Foner, Eric.

ISBN:

9780393319620

Personal Author:

Foner, Eric.

Edition:

1st Norton pbk. ed.

Publication Information:

New York : W.W. Norton, 1999, c1998.

Physical Description:

xxii, 422 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Contents:

The birth of American freedom -- To call it freedom -- An empire of liberty -- The boundaries of freedom in the young republic -- A new birth of freedom -- Liberty of contract and its discontents -- Progressive freedom -- The birth of civil liberities -- The New Deal and the redefinition of freedom -- Fighting for freedom -- Cold War freedom -- Sixties freedom -- Conservative freedom.

Subject Term:

Civil rights -- United States -- History.

Human rights -- United States -- History.

Democracy -- United States -- History.

Liberty -- History.

Geographic Term:

United States -- History.

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Summary

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.