Publisher:New York : Crown, an imprint of Random House, [2019]
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note:
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 backwards -- This electric uprising -- Conclusion: On radical failure.
Summary, etc.:
"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"--