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Author:

Jackson, Holly, author.

Title:

American radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation / Holly Jackson.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Crownan imprint of Random House,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xvii, 372 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Subject:

Radicals--United States--History--19th century--Biography.
Social reformers--United States--History--19th century--Biography.
United States--Social conditions--19th century.
United States--Politics and government--19th century.
United States--History--1815-1861.
United States--History--1849-1877.

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

Introduction: A second and more glorious revolution -- A tremendous no -- One bold lady-man -- O America, your destruction is at hand! -- To break every yoke -- Coming out from the world -- Brook Farm on fire -- Wheat bread and seminal losses -- Marriage slavery and all other queer things -- The aliened American -- Treason will not be treason much longer -- The provisional United States -- Under the flag -- To write justice in the American heart -- A revolution going backwards -- This electric uprising -- Conclusion: On radical failure.

Summary:

"A character-driven narrative history about the nineteenth-century radicals--from Fanny Wright and Henry David Thoreau to John Brown and William Lloyd Garrison--who demanded that the United States live up to its revolutionary ideals, and what their successes and failures can teach us today"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0525573100
9780525573104
0525573097
9780525573098

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1099541847

LCCN:

2019016198

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