From the publisher: An astounding look at how America’s founders—Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Adams—regarded the issue of slavery as they drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. A daring and important work that ultimately reckons with the two great failures of America’s founding: the failure to end slavery and the failure to avoid Indian removal. On the eve of the American Revolution, half a million enslaved African Americans were embedded in the North Amer...
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From the publisher: An astounding look at how America’s founders—Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Adams—regarded the issue of slavery as they drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. A daring and important work that ultimately reckons with the two great failures of America’s founding: the failure to end slavery and the failure to avoid Indian removal. On the eve of the American Revolution, half a million enslaved African Americans were embedded in the North Amer...
#188: Julia Azari - "Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History"
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#188: Julia Azari - "Backlash Presidents: From Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History"
From the publisher: "When Barack Obama won the White House in 2008, becoming the nation’s first Black president, the stage was set for Donald Trump’s eventual rise to power. Backlash Presidents shows how, throughout American history, administrations that challenge the country’s racial status quo are followed by presidents who deal in racially charged politics and presidential lawlessness, culminating in impeachment crises. In this incisive book, Julia Azari traces the connections between rac...
Axelbank Reports History and Today
From the publisher: An astounding look at how America’s founders—Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Adams—regarded the issue of slavery as they drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. A daring and important work that ultimately reckons with the two great failures of America’s founding: the failure to end slavery and the failure to avoid Indian removal. On the eve of the American Revolution, half a million enslaved African Americans were embedded in the North Amer...
