The Broken Heart of America
Read by
Jamie Renell
Release:
04/14/2020
Release:
04/14/2020
Runtime:
15h 47m
Runtime:
15h 47m
Unabridged
Quantity:
“Rooting today’s racism in yesterday’s conquest of indigenous people and enslavement of kidnapped people from Africa makes The Broken Heart of America a book for our times.”
Los Angeles Times
A Huffington Post Pick of Adult Books about Antiracism & Activism
Winner of the 2021 Missouri History Book Award
An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick in History
A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis.
From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past.
St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal. But it was once also America's most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War's first general emancipation, and the nation's first general strike—a legacy of resistance that endures.
A blistering history of a city's rise and decline, The Broken Heart of America will forever change how we think about the United States.
From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past.
St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal. But it was once also America's most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War's first general emancipation, and the nation's first general strike—a legacy of resistance that endures.
A blistering history of a city's rise and decline, The Broken Heart of America will forever change how we think about the United States.
Release:
2020-04-14
2020-04-14
Runtime:
Runtime:
15h 47m
15h 47m
Format:
audio
audio
Weight:
0.0 lb
1.18 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781549156441
9781549131745
Publisher:
Hachette Book Group
Hachette Book Group
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