Title American radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation / Holly Jackson.

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New York : Crown, an imprint of Random House, [2019]

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Edition	First edition.
Description	xvii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-358) and index.
Summary	"A character-driven narrative history about the nineteenth-century radicals--from Fanny Wright and Henry David Thoreau to John Brown and William Lloyd Garrison--who demanded that the United States live up to its revolutionary ideals, and what their successes and failures can teach us today"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents	Introduction: A second and more glorious revolution -- Part I. Foul oppression in the wind of freedom, 1817-1840. A tremendous no -- One bold lady-man -- O America, your destruction is at hand! -- To break every yoke -- Part II. Infidel utopian free lovers, 1836-1858. Coming out from the world -- Brook Farm on fire -- Wheat bread and seminal losses -- Marriage slavery and all other queer things -- Part III. Abolition war, 1848-1865. The aliened American -- Treason will not be treason much longer -- The provisional United States -- Under the flag -- Part IV. The radicals' reconstruction, 1865-1877. To write justice in the American heart -- A revolution going backwards -- This electric uprising -- Conclusion: On radical failure.
Subject	Radicals -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Biography.
	Social reformers -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Biography.
	United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
	United States -- History -- 1815-1861.
	United States -- History -- 1849-1877.
	HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Radicalism.
	HISTORY / Social History.
	Politics and government.
	Radicals.
	Social conditions.
	Social reformers.
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Biography.
	History.
	Biographies.
ISBN	9780525573098 (hardcover)
	0525573097 (hardcover)
	9780525573104 (paperback)
	0525573100 (paperback)

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