An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America SS_Gift_Guide NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply engaging history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world—from the highly acclaimed author of 1491

one of the most original and surprising students of the American economy

By ignoring the muscle of prospecting

then douses it in whiskey and sets it on fire

he brought visibility and dignity to sexual minorities

An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America SS_Gift_Guide NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A deeply"[A] bracingly original book." Harold Holzer, Wall Street Journal How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders' oligarchy in the Civil War. This is a story about a dangerous idea one which ignited revolutions in America, France, and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of intellectuals to lead the