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The companion volume to a major 16-part PBS series brings the story of the United States as viewed through the inspiring fight to uphold the ideal of freedom -- from the forging of the Declaration of Independence to the power behind the Civil Rights movement to the challenge the nation faces following the terrorist attacks of September 11

Print Book, English, 2003

Oxford University Press, New York, 2003

Nonfiction

406 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

9780195157116, 9780195175011, 0195157117, 0195175018

50348061

Foreword by President George W. Bush and Mrs. Bush

Ordinary people

Independence

Revolution

Liberty for all?

Wake up, America

A fatal contradiction

A war to end slavery

What is freedom?

Whose land is this?

Working for freedom

Yearning to breathe free

Safe for democracy?

Depression and war

Democracy and struggles

Let freedom ring

Marching to freedom land

Becoming free

Declaration of Independence

Freedom in the Constitution