How NineteenthCentury Protest Shaped the Nation
by Holly Jackson
American Radicals moves through the Civil War era as a fast-paced collection of episodes about freethinkers, socialists, abolitionists and vigilantes. Its useful part is the color and immediacy it gives to lesser-known actors, turning neglected moments into readable scenes. Its main limitation is breadth over depth: the narrative often hops between groups and incidents instead of drilling deeply into archival evidence or a single thesis. Expect readable, occasionally polemical history rather than exhaustive academic detail.
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A dynamic, timely history of nineteenthcentury activistsfreelovers and socialists, abolitionists and vigilantesand the social revolution they sparked in the turbulent Civil War eraOn 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 woul...
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