The Two Faces of American Freedom

Aziz Rana overturns conventional accounts of American history, from settlement and Revolution to the Populists and the present day. He argues that settler-colonialism, empire, and a brutally exploitative economic system grounded in racial subjugation have always been at the core of the American project. But radical thinkers and movements have consistently stepped forward at critical junctures to propose transformative alternatives that would make American freedom universal.