Freedom'S Dominion (winner Of The Pulitzer Prize): A Saga Of White Resistance To Federal Power - Paperback
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9781541605121

Freedom'S Dominion (winner Of The Pulitzer Prize): A Saga Of White Resistance To Federal Power

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Author
Cowie, Jefferson

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY ā€¢ā€ÆAn ā€œimportant, deeply affectingā€”and regrettably relevantā€ (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americansā€™ 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. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedomā€”their freedom to dominate others.ā€Æā€Æ
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In Freedomā€™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. In a land shaped by settler colonialism and chattel slavery, freedom became a weapon. 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.ā€Æā€Æ
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Through a riveting account of two centuries of local clashes between white people and federal authorities, Freedomā€™s Dominion offers a radically new history of federal power, democracy, and American freedom. 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.ā€Æ

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