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The Story of American Freedom

ISBN: 9780393046656 | 0393046656
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co
Pub. Date: 10/1/1998

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SummaryTable of Contents
From Thomas Jefferson to Margaret Sanger to FDR, this landmark history shows the story of American freedom to be not a mythic saga but a vital, open-ended tale of accomplishment and failure, a record of a people forever contending over the crucial ideas of their political culture. Photos.
Introductionxiii
1. The Birth of American Freedom
3(26)
The Freedom Englishman
3(9)
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Democratizing Freedom
12(17)
2. To Call It Freedom
29(18)
Slavery and the Republic
29(8)
We the People
37(10)
3. An Empire of Liberty
47(22)
Democracy in America
50(8)
Labor, Free and Slave
58(11)
4. The Boundaries of Freedom in the Young Republic
69(26)
The Imagined Community
69(10)
Battles at the Boundaries
79(16)
5. A New Birth of Freedom
95(20)
"We All Declare for Liberty"
95(5)
"What Is Freedom?"
100(15)
6. Liberty of Contract and Its Discontents
115(24)
Freedom in the Gilded Age
116(8)
Labor and the Republic
124(6)
Redrawing the Boundaries
130(9)
7. Progressive Freedom
139(24)
The Varieties of Economic Freedom
141(11)
Freedom and the Progressive State
152(11)
8. The Birth of Civil Liberties
163(32)
World War I and the Crisis of Freedom
168(17)
Who Is an American?
185(10)
9. The New Deal and the Redefinition of Freedom
195(24)
Security and Freedom
196(14)
"A New Conception of America"
210(9)
10. Fighting for Freedom
219(30)
The Four Freedoms
221(15)
Patriotic Assimilation
236(13)
11. Cold War Freedom
249(26)
The Free World
252(10)
The Triumph of Consumer Freedom
262(13)
12. Sixties Freedom
275(32)
The Freedom Movement
276(11)
The New Left
287(12)
The Rights Revolution
299(8)
13. Conservative Freedom
307(26)
The Rebirth of Conservatism
308(12)
The Reagan Revolution and After
320(13)
Notes333(62)
Acknowledgments395(2)
Index397

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