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A stirring history of America focused on its animating impulse: freedom.

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"Brilliant, important.... [A] superb book." -- Fred Anderson - Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Succinct, information-packed, wonderfully readable.... An excellent choice for serious readers." -- Pauline Maier - New York Times Book Review
"Foner tackles the whole drama of American history. He succeeds, with far-reaching intelligence and a genial respect for his reader." -- Mark Greif - Boston Sunday Globe
"A masterful book... that covers two centuries of courage, violence, achievement, and unfulfilled dreams in the quest for liberty." -- Herbert Mitgang - Newsday
"A thought-provoking look at the historical uses of freedom in the United States." -- Seattle Times
"Powerful.... Eric Foner has held up a mirror and asked us as a people to take a good, hard look at ourselves. It is incumbent on us not to turn away." -- Raleigh News & Observer

The Story of American Freedom

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    A Paperback / softback by Eric Foner

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      Publisher: WW Norton & Co
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 03/11/1999
      ISBN13: 9780393319620, 978-0393319620
      ISBN10: 0393319628
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A stirring history of America focused on its animating impulse: freedom.

      Trade Review
      "Brilliant, important.... [A] superb book." -- Fred Anderson - Los Angeles Times Book Review
      "Succinct, information-packed, wonderfully readable.... An excellent choice for serious readers." -- Pauline Maier - New York Times Book Review
      "Foner tackles the whole drama of American history. He succeeds, with far-reaching intelligence and a genial respect for his reader." -- Mark Greif - Boston Sunday Globe
      "A masterful book... that covers two centuries of courage, violence, achievement, and unfulfilled dreams in the quest for liberty." -- Herbert Mitgang - Newsday
      "A thought-provoking look at the historical uses of freedom in the United States." -- Seattle Times
      "Powerful.... Eric Foner has held up a mirror and asked us as a people to take a good, hard look at ourselves. It is incumbent on us not to turn away." -- Raleigh News & Observer

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