A searing and magisterial (Cornel West) History of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of St.
A blistering History of a city\'s rise and decline, The Broken Heart of America will forever change how we think about the United States..
But it was once also America\'s most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War\'s first general emancipation, and the nation\'s first general strike--a legacy of resistance that endures.
Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor Black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal.
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And as Walter Johnson shows in The Broken Heart of America , the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation\'s past.
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From Lewis and Clark\'s 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American History has been made in St.
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A searing and magisterial (Cornel West) History of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of St
