Presented by the Roosevelt Institute, The New Republic, and PRX. Its relevance to our time should be obvious. Cowie identifies in Barbour County’s history a chilling third definition: the freedom to oppress and dominate. We know the two standard definitions of freedom or liberty-“negative” freedom (the right to be left alone) and “positive” freedom (affirmative rights guaranteed by the state). It’s a historical look at Barbour County, Alabama-the birthplace, as it happens, of segregationist Governor George Wallace-and how the white people there imposed their will on Native and Black Americans. In April, it won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. This year, he struck gold with his newest work, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power.
Vanderbilt historian Jefferson Cowie has written several highly influential volumes in his career, including Stayin’ Alive, about the 1970s, and The Great Exception, on the New Deal.
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