American radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation
Jackson, Holly
American radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation / Holly Jackson - First edition. - New York : Crown , 2019 - 372 p ; 25 cm
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.
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.
English
9780525573098
Radicals---History---Biography---United States---19th century
Social reformers---United States----Biography
United States---Social conditions---21th century
United States---Politics and government---19th century
United States---History---1815-1861
United States---History---1849-1877
HN90.R3 / J37 2019
303.48 JAC
American radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation / Holly Jackson - First edition. - New York : Crown , 2019 - 372 p ; 25 cm
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.
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.
English
9780525573098
Radicals---History---Biography---United States---19th century
Social reformers---United States----Biography
United States---Social conditions---21th century
United States---Politics and government---19th century
United States---History---1815-1861
United States---History---1849-1877
HN90.R3 / J37 2019
303.48 JAC
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