Product Description: Oscar and Lilian Handlin show us how the new voyagers in the twentieth century--from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Latin America--record their experiences in the United States. The narratives of the non-Europeans, they find, clearly reflect the circumstances of their composition, as well as the political prejudices of their authors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Traces the development of the idea of liberty from seventeenth-century America, and discusses the change in its meaning to people from all social levels

Traces the development of the idea of liberty from seventeenth-century America, and discusses the change in its meaning to people from all social levels

Traces the development of the idea of liberty from seventeenth-century America, and discusses the change in its meaning to people from all social levels

Traces the development of the idea of liberty from seventeenth-century America, and discusses the change in its meaning to people from all social levels

Reconstructs the life of the New England politician, historian, secretary of the navy, ambassador, and confidant to three presidents, a man who was misunderstood by his contemporaries and misinterpreted by scholars