American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation by Holly Jackson
Requirements: .MP3 reader, 316 MB
Overview: A dynamic, timely history of 19th-century activists – free-lovers and socialists, abolitionists and vigilantes – and the social revolution they sparked in the turbulent Civil War era
“In the tradition of Howard Zinn’s people’s histories, American Radicals reveals a forgotten yet inspiring past.” (Megan Marshall, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life and Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast)
On July 4, 1826, as Americans lit firecrackers to celebrate the country’s 50th birthday, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were on their deathbeds. They would leave behind a groundbreaking political system and a growing economy – as well as the glaring inequalities that had undermined the American experiment from its beginning. The young nation had outlived the men who made it, but could it survive intensifying divisions over the very meaning of the land of the free?
Genre: Audiobooks > Non-Fiction
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