American prophecy : race and redemption in American political culture /

"Prophecy is the fundamental idiom of American politics - a biblical rhetoric about redeeming the crimes, suffering, and promise of a special people. Yet American prophecy and its great practitioners - from Frederick Douglass and Henry Thoreau to Martin Luther King, James Baldwin, and Toni Morr...

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Main Author: Shulman, George M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
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