WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY -
An important, deeply affecting--and regrettably relevant ( New York Times Book Review ) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: White Americans\' freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world.
This history summons us today to embrace a vigorous model of American citizenship, backed by a Federal government that is not afraid to fight the many incarnations of the freedom to dominate. .
With freedom as their cry, White Americans seized Native lands, championed secession, overthrew Reconstruction, questioned the New Deal, and fought against the civil rights movement.
Through a riveting account of two centuries of local clashes between White people and Federal authorities, Freedom\'s Dominion offers a radically new history of Federal power, democracy, and American freedom.
In a land shaped by settler colonialism and chattel slavery, freedom became a weapon.
But for centuries, whenever the Federal government intervened on behalf of nonWhite people, many White Americans fought back in the name of freedom--their freedom to dominate others.
In Freedom\'s Dominion , prizewinning historian Jefferson Cowie traces this complex Saga by focusing on a quintessentially American place: Barbour County, Alabama, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace.
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY -
An important, deeply affecting--and regrettably relevant ( New York Times Book Review ) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: White Americans\' freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world
