Read Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism

Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism

Roger Wilkins

4.9/5 (22697 ratings)

Description:An outspoken participant in the civil rights movement, Roger Wilkins served as Assistant Attorney General during the Johnson administration. In 1972 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize along with Bernstein and Herblock for his coverage of Watergate. Yet this black man, who has served the United States so well, feels at times an unwelcome guest here.In Jefferson's Pillow, Wilkins returns to America's beginnings and the founding fathers who preached and fought for freedom, even though they owned other human beings and legally denied them their humanity. He asserts that the mythic accounts of the American Revolution have ignored slavery and oversimplified history until the heroes, be they the founders or the slaves in their service, are denied any human complexity.Wilkins offers a thoughtful analysis of this fundamental paradox through his exploration of the lives of George Washington, George Mason, James Madison, and of course Thomas Jefferson. He discusses how class, education, and personality allowed for the institution of slavery, unravels how we as Americans tell different sides of that story, and explores the confounding ability of that narrative to limit who we are and who we can become.An important intellectual history of America's founding, Jefferson's Pillow will change the way we view our nation and ourselves.From the Trade Paperback edition.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism. To get started finding Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0807009555

Description: An outspoken participant in the civil rights movement, Roger Wilkins served as Assistant Attorney General during the Johnson administration. In 1972 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize along with Bernstein and Herblock for his coverage of Watergate. Yet this black man, who has served the United States so well, feels at times an unwelcome guest here.In Jefferson's Pillow, Wilkins returns to America's beginnings and the founding fathers who preached and fought for freedom, even though they owned other human beings and legally denied them their humanity. He asserts that the mythic accounts of the American Revolution have ignored slavery and oversimplified history until the heroes, be they the founders or the slaves in their service, are denied any human complexity.Wilkins offers a thoughtful analysis of this fundamental paradox through his exploration of the lives of George Washington, George Mason, James Madison, and of course Thomas Jefferson. He discusses how class, education, and personality allowed for the institution of slavery, unravels how we as Americans tell different sides of that story, and explores the confounding ability of that narrative to limit who we are and who we can become.An important intellectual history of America's founding, Jefferson's Pillow will change the way we view our nation and ourselves.From the Trade Paperback edition.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism. To get started finding Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism

Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism

More Books

The Strange Adventure of Roger Wilkins and Other Stories

The Strange Adventure of Roger Wilkins and Other Stories

A Man's Life: An Autobiography

A Man's Life: An Autobiography

Excerpts from text of remarks by Roger W. Wilkins, Director-Designate, Community Relations Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., at ... League, Columbus, Ohio, January 13, 1966

Excerpts from text of remarks by Roger W. Wilkins, Director-Designate, Community Relations Service, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., at ... League, Columbus, Ohio, January 13, 1966

Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism by Roger Wilkins (2001-07-04)

Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism by Roger Wilkins (2001-07-04)

Jackie Robinson; an intimate portrait, foreword by Roger Wilkins.

Jackie Robinson; an intimate portrait, foreword by Roger Wilkins.

Quiet Riots: Race and Poverty in the United States : The Kerner Report Twenty Years Later by Roger W. Wilkins (1988-11-06)

Quiet Riots: Race and Poverty in the United States : The Kerner Report Twenty Years Later by Roger W. Wilkins (1988-11-06)

A Man's Life: An Autobiography by Roger Wilkins

A Man's Life: An Autobiography by Roger Wilkins

The Biophilia Hypothesis (Shearwater Book)

The Biophilia Hypothesis (Shearwater Book)