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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 June 2012
    22 November 2010
    ISBN:
    9780511921612
    9780521193665
    9780521187039
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511921612
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.68kg, 408 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.55kg, 408 Pages
    • Subjects:
    American History: General Interest, Legal History, Area Studies, American Studies, Law, History
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    American History: General Interest, Legal History, Area Studies, American Studies, Law, History
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    Radicals in Their Own Time explores the lives of five Americans, with lifetimes spanning four hundred years, who agitated for greater freedom in America. Every generation has them: individuals who speak truth to power and crave freedom from arbitrary authority. This book makes two important observations in discussing Roger Williams, Thomas Paine, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, W. E. B. Du Bois and Vine Deloria, Jr. First, each believed that government must broadly tolerate individual autonomy. Second, each argued that religious orthodoxy has been a major source of society's ills – and all endured serious negative repercussions for doing so. The book challenges Christian orthodoxy and argues that part of what makes these five figures compelling is their willingness to pay the price for their convictions – much to the lasting benefit of liberty and equal justice in America.

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