Jefferson Cowie
Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
Freedom's Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
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Freedom's Dominion is a Pulitzer Prize-winning history that explores how white Americans have used freedom as a weapon to dominate others, seizing Native lands, championing secession, overthrowing Reconstruction, questioning the New Deal, and fighting against the civil rights movement. It offers a new perspective on federal power, democracy, and American freedom, urging us to embrace a vigorous model of American citizenship backed by a federal government that is not afraid to fight the freedom to dominate.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 512 pages
Publication date: 25 January 2024
Publisher: Basic Books
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History!
An important, deeply affecting, and regrettably relevant (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' 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 non-white people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom—their freedom to dominate others.
In Freedom's Dominion, prize-winning 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.
Through a riveting account of two centuries of local clashes between white people and federal authorities, Freedom'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.
Weight: 442g
Dimension: 139 x 209 x 38 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781541605121
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