Lynn, Barry C.

Summary: "Barry C. Lynn, one of America's preeminent thinkers, provides the clearest statement yet on the nature and magnitude of the political and economic dangers posed by America's new monopolies in Liberty from All Masters. Americans are obsessed with liberty, mad about liberty. On any day, we can tune into arguments about how much liberty we need to buy a gun or get an abortion, to marry who we...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 LYN

Wade, Sabia

Summary: "Sabia C. Wade, renowned radical doula and educator, speaks to the intersections of systemic issues--such as access to health care, house transportation, and nutrition--and personal trauma work that, if healed, have the power to lead us to collective liberation in all facets of life. Collective liberation rests on the idea that in order for us all to have equity in this world--from the safety...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.96 WAD

Stovall, Tyler Edward

Summary: "The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also a nation built on African slavery, Native American genocide, and systematic racial discrimination. White Freedom traces the complex relationship between freedom and race from the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.01 STO

Breyer, Stephen G.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.029 BRE

Metaxas, Eric

Summary: Eric Metaxas offers a thrilling review of America's uniqueness, and a sobering reminder that America's greatness cannot continue unless people truly understand what their founding fathers meant for them to be. The book includes a stirring call-to-action for every American to understand the ideals behind the 'noble experiment in ordered liberty' that is America. It also paints a vivid picture of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 MET

Summary: "From more than a thousand pamphlets published on both sides of the Atlantic during the period [of 1764-1776], acclaimed historian Gordon S. Wood has selected thirty-nine of the most influential and emblematic to reveal as never before how this momentous revolution unfolded. Here, in the first volume of a two-volume set, are nineteen works from the trans-Atlantic debate triggered by...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 AME

Summary: "For the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution, the leading historian of the era presents a landmark two-volume edition of the thirty-nine pamphlets charting the course of the political crisis that led to independence. This second volume includes twenty works from the crucial years when the debate turned from issues of representation and consent to the fateful question of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library Of America 2015

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Brookhiser, Richard.

Summary: An award-winning historian recounts the history of American liberty through the stories of twelve essential documents. Nationalism is inevitable: It supplies feelings of belonging, identity, and recognition. It binds us to our neighbors and tells us who we are. But increasingly-from the United States to India, from Russia to Burma-nationalism is being invoked for unworthy ends: to disdain...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 BRO

Paul, Ron

Summary: The twelve-term congressman expounds on the fifty key issues that he feels are most important to Americans, based on the concept of personal liberty.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2011

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 320.01 PAU