Authors: Eric Foner
ISBN-13: 9780393319620, ISBN-10: 0393319628
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: September 1999
Edition: 1 ED
Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, where he earned his B.A. and Ph.D. In his teaching and scholarship, Foner focuses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and nineteenth-century America. His Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877, won the Bancroft, Parkman, and Los Angeles Times Book prizes and remains the standard history of the period. In 2006 Foner received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching at Columbia University. He has served as president of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Society of American Historians. He is currently writing a book on Lincoln and slavery.
"Eric Foner's brilliant, important book . . . shows how, having invoked liberty to justify their independence in 1776, Americans have fought ever since over what that freedom means and who may enjoy its blessings."—Los Angeles Times Book Review
This is not a philosophical book on freedom....[The book] reminds us that in every age Americans have risen...to contest the established limits to freedom and to redeem the nation's prophetic memory of liberty, equality, and democracy.
Introduction | ||
1 | The Birth of American Freedom | 3 |
2 | To Call It Freedom | 29 |
3 | An Empire of Liberty | 47 |
4 | The Boundaries of Freedom in the Young Republic | 69 |
5 | A New Birth of Freedom | 95 |
6 | Liberty of Contract and Its Discontents | 115 |
7 | Progressive Freedom | 139 |
8 | The Birth of Civil Liberties | 163 |
9 | The New Deal and the Redefinition of Freedom | 195 |
10 | Fighting for Freedom | 219 |
11 | Cold War Freedom | 249 |
12 | Sixties Freedom | 275 |
13 | Conservative Freedom | 307 |
Notes | 333 | |
Acknowledgments | 395 | |
Index | 397 |