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"A great read."-Whoopi Goldberg, The View How the clash between the
civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism
continues to illuminate America's racial divide On February 18,
1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge,
England, to witness a historic televised debate between James
Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement,
and William F. Buckley Jr., a fierce critic of the movement and
America's most influential conservative intellectual. The topic was
"the American dream is at the expense of the American Negro," and
no one who has seen the debate can soon forget it. Nicholas
Buccola's The Fire Is upon Us is the first book to tell the full
story of the event, the radically different paths that led Baldwin
and Buckley to it, the controversies that followed, and how the
debate and the decades-long clash between the men continues to
illuminate America's racial divide today. Born in New York City
only fifteen months apart, the Harlem-raised Baldwin and the
privileged Buckley could not have been more different, but they
both rose to the height of American intellectual life during the
civil rights movement. By the time they met in Cambridge, Buckley
was determined to sound the alarm about a man he considered an
"eloquent menace." For his part, Baldwin viewed Buckley as a
deluded reactionary whose popularity revealed the sickness of the
American soul. The stage was set for an epic confrontation that
pitted Baldwin's call for a moral revolution in race relations
against Buckley's unabashed elitism and implicit commitment to
white supremacy. A remarkable story of race and the American dream,
The Fire Is upon Us reveals the deep roots and lasting legacy of a
conflict that continues to haunt our politics.
How the legendary debate between a civil rights firebrand and the
father of modern conservatism illuminates America's racial divide
On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge
Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate
between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil
rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr., a fierce critic of the
movement and America's most influential conservative intellectual.
The topic was "the American dream is at the expense of the American
Negro," and no one who has seen the debate can soon forget it.
Nicholas Buccola's The Fire Is upon Us is the first book to tell
the full story of the event, the radically different paths that led
Baldwin and Buckley to it, and how the debate and the decades-long
clash between the men illuminates the racial divide that continues
to haunt America today.
2013 Finalist, 26th Annual Oregon Best Book Award Normal 0
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Douglass, one of the most prominent figures in African-American and
United States history, was born a slave, but escaped to the North
and became a well-known anti-slavery activist, orator, and author.
In The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass, Nicholas Buccola
provides an important and original argument about the ideas that
animated this reformer-statesman. Beyond his role as an
abolitionist, Buccola argues for the importance of understanding
Douglass as a political thinker who provides deep insights into the
immense challenge of achieving and maintaining the liberal promise
of freedom. Douglass, Buccola contends, shows us that the language
of rights must be coupled with a robust understanding of social
responsibility in order for liberal ideals to be realized. Truly an
original American thinker, this book highlights Douglass's rightful
place among the great thinkers in the American liberal tradition.
Podcast - Nicholas Buccola on Frederick Douglass and Liberty.
Though Abraham Lincoln was not a political philosopher per se, in
word and in deed he did grapple with many of the most pressing and
timeless questions in politics. What is the moral basis ofpopular
sovereignty? What are the proper limits on the will of the
majority? When and why should we revere the law? What are we to do
when the letter of the law is at odds with what we believe justice
requires? How is our devotion to a particular nation related to our
commitment to universal ideals? What is the best way to protect
theright to liberty for all people? The contributors to this
volume, a methodologically and ideologically diverse group of
scholars,examine Lincoln's responses to these and other ultimate
questions in politics. The result is a fascinating portrait of not
only Abraham Lincoln but also the promises and paradoxes of liberal
democracy. The basic liberal democratic idea is that individual
liberty is best secured by a democratic political order that treats
all citizens as equals before the law and is governed by the law,
with its limits on how the state may treat its citizens and on how
citizens may treat one another. Though wonderfully coherent in
theory, these ideasprove problematic in real-world politics. The
authors of this volume approach Lincoln as the embodiment of this
paradox-"naturally antislavery" yet unflinchingly committed to
defending proslavery laws; defender of the common man but troubled
by the excesses of democracy; devoted to the idea of equal natural
rights yet unable to imagine a harmonious, interracial democracy.
Considering Lincoln as he attempted to work out the meaning and
coherence of the liberal democratic project in practice, these
authors craft a profile of the 16th president's political thought
from a variety of perspectives and through multiple lenses.
Together their essays create the first fully-dimensional portrait
of Abraham Lincoln as a political actor, expressing, addressing,
and reframing the perennial questions of liberal democracy for his
time and our own.
In addition to a thoughtful selection of the essays, speeches, and
autobiographical writings of Frederick Douglass, this anthology
provides an illuminating Introduction; a timeline of Douglass'
life; footnotes that introduce individuals, quotations, and events;
and a selected bibliography.
In addition to a thoughtful selection of the essays, speeches, and
autobiographical writings of Frederick Douglass, this anthology
provides an illuminating Introduction; a timeline of Douglass'
life; footnotes that introduce individuals, quotations, and events;
and a selected bibliography.
Though Abraham Lincoln was not a political philosopher per se, in
word and in deed he did grapple with many of the most pressing and
timeless questions in politics. What is the moral basis ofpopular
sovereignty? What are the proper limits on the will of the
majority? When and why should we revere the law? What are we to do
when the letter of the law is at odds with what we believe justice
requires? How is our devotion to a particular nation related to our
commitment to universal ideals? What is the best way to protect
theright to liberty for all people? The contributors to this
volume, a methodologically and ideologically diverse group of
scholars,examine Lincoln's responses to these and other ultimate
questions in politics. The result is a fascinating portrait of not
only Abraham Lincoln but also the promises and paradoxes of liberal
democracy. The basic liberal democratic idea is that individual
liberty is best secured by a democratic political order that treats
all citizens as equals before the law and is governed by the law,
with its limits on how the state may treat its citizens and on how
citizens may treat one another. Though wonderfully coherent in
theory, these ideasprove problematic in real-world politics. The
authors of this volume approach Lincoln as the embodiment of this
paradox-"naturally antislavery" yet unflinchingly committed to
defending proslavery laws; defender of the common man but troubled
by the excesses of democracy; devoted to the idea of equal natural
rights yet unable to imagine a harmonious, interracial democracy.
Considering Lincoln as he attempted to work out the meaning and
coherence of the liberal democratic project in practice, these
authors craft a profile of the 16th president's political thought
from a variety of perspectives and through multiple lenses.
Together their essays create the first fully-dimensional portrait
of Abraham Lincoln as a political actor, expressing, addressing,
and reframing the perennial questions of liberal democracy for his
time and our own.
2013 Finalist, 26th Annual Oregon Best Book Award Normal 0
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Douglass, one of the most prominent figures in African-American and
United States history, was born a slave, but escaped to the North
and became a well-known anti-slavery activist, orator, and author.
In The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass, Nicholas Buccola
provides an important and original argument about the ideas that
animated this reformer-statesman. Beyond his role as an
abolitionist, Buccola argues for the importance of understanding
Douglass as a political thinker who provides deep insights into the
immense challenge of achieving and maintaining the liberal promise
of freedom. Douglass, Buccola contends, shows us that the language
of rights must be coupled with a robust understanding of social
responsibility in order for liberal ideals to be realized. Truly an
original American thinker, this book highlights Douglass's rightful
place among the great thinkers in the American liberal tradition.
Podcast - Nicholas Buccola on Frederick Douglass and Liberty.
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