The story of American freedom /

"Over the course of our history, freedom has been a living truth for some Americans and a cruel mockery for others. In Eric Foner's stirring history, freedom's story is not the simple unfolding of a timeless truth, but an open-ended history of accomplishment and failure. Its impetus l...

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Main Author: Foner, Eric, 1943-
Corporate Author: Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, 1998.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of 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.