{"product_id":"freedom-s-dominion-a-saga-of-white-resistance-to","title":"Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY - An important, deeply affecting--and regrettably relevant (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans' freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom--their freedom to dominate others.   \u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eFreedom's Dominion\u003c\/i\u003e, prizewinning 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.   \u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e Through a riveting account of two centuries of local clashes between white people and federal authorities, \u003ci\u003eFreedom's Dominion\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46610722160809,"sku":"PHBK-9781541605121","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/content_d0f8fc20-913a-45c3-a218-b23e8f1c249c.jpg?v=1764712738","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/freedom-s-dominion-a-saga-of-white-resistance-to","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}