Freedom Lost, Freedom Won
A Personal History of America
$29.75
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
16 March 2027
Summary
Pulitzer Prize–winning former Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson tells our nation’s torturous racial history through his own family’s story, starting with his great-grandfather’s freedom from slavery and threading his way to his own narrative and reaching today’s Black Lives Matter movement, asking whether this time will be different.
On March 27, 1829, a wealthy white planter and entrepreneur named Richard Fordham purchased four enslaved African Ameri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781982176723 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1982176725 |
| Author: | Eugene Robinson |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 16 March 2027 |
| Weight: | 336g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 140mm x 213mm |
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Critics Review
“All too often when reckoning with the sheer scale of American slavery—its depravities, its systematized cruelties—one can lose sight of individual stories… Which is why Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Eugene Robinson’s historical journey is so important… A true—and important—American story.”
—Lit Hub
“A skillfully narrated journey into the past.”
—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
Eugene Robinson
Eugene Robinson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, former columnist, and associate editor of The Washington Post. He is also an author and political analyst. His prior positions included that of foreign editor, London correspondent, and South America correspondent. Born in Orangeburg, South Carolina, he graduated from the University of Michigan and worked at the San Francisco Chronicle before joining The Washington Post.
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