The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United Sta

Description: The Broken Heart of America by Walter Johnson A searing and "magisterial" (Cornel West, New York Times-bestselling author of Democracy Matters) history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of St. Louis From Lewis and Clarks 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nations past. St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal. But it was once also Americas most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil Wars first general emancipation, and the nations first general strike--a legacy of resistance that endures. A blistering history of a citys rise and decline, The Broken Heart of America will forever change how we think about the United States. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Walter Johnson is Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. A Missouri native and author of the critically acclaimed Soul by Soul, which won numerous prestigious awards, and River of Dark Dreams, he lives in Arlington, MA. Review "The Broken Heart of America is an outraged dissection of a malignant pattern Johnson discerns in the way white St. Louis treated Native Americans and then Blacks...Comprehensive and convincing in its particulars."--Boston Globe"Gateway. Ghetto. Ground Zero. Blues. This is St. Louis, unmoored from myths and exposed by one of our finest historians. Walter Johnson finds in this romanticized and reviled city the nucleus of racial capitalism and American empire and a story of dispossession, disaster, extraction, containment, and deathlots of death. A heartland broken, but not a heartless tale, for it is here we discover Black, Brown, and Native communities with heart, workers with heart, organizers fighting to bring justice to the heart of the city and the nation. After reading this book, you will never think of St. Louis or U.S. history the same way."--Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original"The thread that runs through this entire book is the historical relationship between US imperialism, Indian removal, and anti-Black racism. Although also a granular history of the city of St. Louis, The Broken Heart of America is a deep history of the United States continental empire with St. Louis at the center of economic and military operations. This may be the most important book on U.S. history you will read in your lifetime."--Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States"Walter Johnson has written a magisterial book. Using the sordid history of St. Louis, he weaves a tale of violence and betrayala story of the removal of peoples and the taking of land by force and by zoningthat helps the reader understand the glaring contradictions that define the United States today. Even the killing of Michael Brown in 2014 must be understood against the backdrop of the long history of greed, extraction, and racism that shaped the city of St. Louis and this country. The Broken Heart of America isnt a dispassionate treatment of historical facts: Johnson has written a searing history that matters deeply to him, a native son, and it should matter to all of us."--Eddie S. Glaude, author of Begin Again: James Baldwins America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own"Walter Johnsons latest is a masterpiece that both haunts and inspires: at once a personal reckoning; a sweeping 200-year history of removal, racism, exclusion, and extraction; and a story that powerfully lifts up the human beings who, in 2014, stood together in Ferguson to demand accountability for the layered injustices that have so scarred not just one citybut America itself."--Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy"When it comes to the history of racism and exclusion in the United States, St. Louis wasnt unique...what it was, Johnson says, was more extreme...Johnson is a spirited and skillful rhetorician, juggling a slew of historical facts while never allowing the flame of his anger to dim...As he ably shows, so much exploitation lies in the details."--New York Times"When it comes to understanding the power dynamics that sparked the Ferguson Uprising in St. Louis, this is absolutely the most important book youll read. Walter Johnson has a Baldwin-esque ability to describe the raw emotions of Black life in the city. With stories heartbreaking yet rivetingtold by someone brave enough to share themhe exposes the history of white supremacy and capitalism, class struggle and race, and Black rebellions both before and after Ferguson. In the era of fake news and mock revolutions, this book is the truth."--Tef Poe, musician, activist, and cofounder of Hands Up United"A grim history that details the triumphant expansion of a virulent and violent racialized capitalism."--Dissent"Beginning with the imperial dreams of William Clark and ending with the protests and freedom movements of organizers in Ferguson, Johnson encapsulates Americas dreams and contradictions."--Smithsonian"In his compelling and enlightening book, Johnson connects past and present, calling for a reexamination of urban life and the fundamental problems of this most American of cities."--National Book Review"Johnsons insistence on rooting todays racism in yesterdays conquest of indigenous people and enslavement of kidnapped people from Africa makes The Broken Heart of America a book for our times."--Los Angeles Review of Books"Readers of The Broken Heart of America will never view the history of the region the same way again."--St. Louis Post-Dispatch"This book is a magisterial history of the emergence and development of racial capitalism and the rise and decline of American empire examined through the lens of St. Louis. The complex dynamics of eviction, extraction, and exploitation as well as resilience and resistance are laid bare from the indigenous city of Cahokia in the eleventh century (larger than then London) to St. Louis, a frontier post and later metropolis of the US western empire. From ruling class elites Thomas Hart Benton and Harland Bartholomew and oppositional artists Kate Chopin and Tef Poe to black and socialist insurgents, The Broken Heart of America tells the best story of America that we have in the spirit of W.E.B. Du Bois. Walter Johnson is one of our very few great US historians!"--Cornel West, New York Times-bestselling author of Democracy Matters Details ISBN1541619587 Author Walter Johnson Short Title The Broken Heart of America Publisher Basic Books Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1541619587 ISBN-13 9781541619586 Format Paperback Subtitle St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States Pages 544 Imprint Basic Books Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2021-07-06 NZ Release Date 2021-07-06 US Release Date 2021-07-06 UK Release Date 1900-01-01 Illustrations Illustrations, unspecified Publication Date 2021-07-06 DEWEY 977.866 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:139630247;

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