A Renegade History of the United States - Thaddeus Russell

Descriere A Renegade History of the United States - Thaddeus Russell

\nThis provocative perspective on America's history claims that the country's personality was defined not by the ideals of the elites and intellectuals, but by those who throughout have lived on the fringes of society history--slaves, immigrants, gangsters, and others who challenged the conventions of their day. \nRaucous, profane, and thrillingly original, Thaddeus Russell's A Renegade History of the United States turns the myths of the 'American character' on their heads with a rare mix of wit, scholarship, and storytelling flair (Steven Johnson, author of Everything Bad Is Good for You and The Invention of Air ). \n \nAn all-new, stunning, and controversial story of the United States: It was not good citizens who established American liberty, declares Thaddeus Russell, but immoral and degraded people on the fringes of society whose subversive lifestyles legitimized the taboo and made America the land of the free. \n \nIn vivid portraits of renegades and their respectable adversaries, Russell shows that the nation's history has been driven by clashes between those interested in preserving social order and those more interested in pursuing their own desires. The more these accidental revolutionaries--drunkards, prostitutes, gangsters, unassimilated immigrants, bad blacks--persevered, the more American society changed for the better. \n \nThis is not the history taught in textbooks or classrooms--this renegade book will upend everything you believe about the American past.\n

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Free Press

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9781416576136

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1

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