"Each title in the Icons of America series. This series explores the significance and history of well-known American symbols"--

A disgraced detective teams up with an ambitious FBI special agent to prevent a cycle of murders by a killer who ended the life of a colleague's sister. --Publisher

So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate, or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept's complexities...

"The invention of modern freedom-the equating of liberty with restraints on state power-was not the natural outcome of such secular Western trends as the growth of religious tolerance or the creation of market societies. Rather, it was propelled by an antidemocratic backlash following the Atlantic Revolutions. We tend to think of freedom as something that is best protected by carefully circumscribing the boundaries of legitimate state activity. But...

Though setting rules is important, it's just as important to break them from time to time. Bestselling author Meyer reminds readers that balance is a core value in life and every once in a while, it is okay to indulge in a guilty pleasure or two.--

"To understand why the shadow of slavery still haunts society today, we must not only look at what slavery was, but also the unfinished way it ended. One may think of 'emancipation' as a finale, leading to a new age of human rights and universal freedoms. But in reality, emancipations everywhere were incomplete. In [this book], ... Manjapra identifies five types of emancipation--explaining them in chronological order--along with the lasting impact...

"In these ... essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of Black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles--from the Black Freedom Movement to the South African...

When John Jacob Mickley accompanies his father on a trip to Philadelphia, he discovers that the city is facing a Redcoat attack. Next thing he knows, Papa and he have been entrusted with a top-secret mission. Can the humble Mickley wagon dodge British soldiers and carry an important two-thousand-pound symbol of freedom to safety?