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

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