This Radical Land
"The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature," wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. A country of slavery and of Indian wars. That's largely how we still think of ni… Celý popis ↓
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This Radical Land
"The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature," wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. A country of slavery and of Indian wars. That's largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America today: a country expanding unstoppably, bending the continent's natural bounty to the national will, heedless of consequence.
This Radical Land recovers that story. There's much truth in that vision.But if you know where to look, you can uncover a different history, one of vibrant resistance, one that's been mostly forgotten. Daegan Miller is our guide on a beautifully written, revelatory trip across the continent during which we encounter radical thinkers, settlers, and artists who grounded their ideas of freedom, justice, and progress in the very landscapes around them, even as the
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