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Jackson, Holly, author.

American radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation / Holly Jackson.

First edition.

New York : Crown, [2019]

xvii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

"A character-driven narrative history about the nineteenth-century radicals--from Fanny Wright and Henry David Thoreau to John Brown and William Lloyd Garrison--who demanded that the United States live up to its revolutionary ideals, and what their successes and failures can teach us today"-- Provided by publisher.

Radicals -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Biography.

Social reformers -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Biography.

United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.

United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century.

United States -- History -- 1815-1861.

United States -- History -- 1849-1877.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-358) and index.

Introduction: A second and more glorious revolution -- A tremendous NO -- One bold lady-man -- O America, your destruction is at hand! -- To break every yoke -- Coming out from the world -- Brook Farm on fire -- Wheat bread and seminal losses -- Marriage slavery and all other queer things -- The aliened American -- Treason will not be treason much longer -- The provisional United States -- Under the flag -- To write justice in the American heart -- A revolution going backward -- This electric uprising -- Conclusion: On radical failure.

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