Crown Publishing Group (ny)

Crown Publishing Group (ny) - American radicals: how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation, hardcover/holly jackson

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Description A dynamic, timely history of nineteenth-century activists--free-lovers and socialists, abolitionists and vigilantes--and the social revolution they sparked in the turbulent Civil War era On July 4, 1826, as Americans lit firecrackers to celebrate the country's fiftieth birthday, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were on their deathbeds.

They would leave behind a groundbreaking political system and a growing economy--as well as the glaring inequalities t.