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Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism

Name: Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism
Brand: Beacon Press
SKU: 9780807009574
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Contributors:

Roger W. Wilkins

Publisher:

Beacon Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science, History

Book Subcategory:

Cultural & Ethnic Studies, United States

Book Topic:

American, Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Colonial Period (1600-1775)

Award:

2002 New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association Award Winner - Adult Nonfiction Award

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Release Date:

2002-07-12

ISBN 13:

9780807009574

Weight:

0.55 lbs

Size:

8.44 x 5.54 x 0.54 inches

Pages:

180

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An outspoken participant in the civil rights movement, Roger Wilkins served as Assistant Attorney General during the Johnson administration. In 1972 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize along with Bernstein and Herblock for his coverage of Watergate. Yet this black man, who has served the United States so well, feels at times an unwelcome guest here.

In Jefferson's Pillow, Wilkins returns to America's beginnings and the founding fathers who preached and fought for freedom, even though they owned other human beings and legally denied them their humanity. He asserts that the mythic accounts of the American Revolution have ignored slavery and oversimplified history until the heroes, be they the founders or the slaves in their service, are denied any human complexity.

Wilkins offers a thoughtful analysis of this fundamental paradox through his exploration of the lives of George Washington, George Mason, James Madison, and of course Thomas Jefferson. He discusses how class, education, and personality allowed for the institution of slavery, unravels how we as Americans tell different sides of that story, and explores the confounding ability of that narrative to limit who we are and who we can become.

An important intellectual history of America's founding, Jefferson's Pillow will change the way we view our nation and ourselves.

About the Author
Roger Wilkins, currently the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History at George Mason University, was cited in the 1972 Pulitzer Prize award to The Washington Post for his coverage of Watergate. He serves on the school board of the District of Columbia and lives in Washington, D.C.

Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism

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