One Man's Freedom

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This audiobook narrated by Bruce Lester Johnson tells the dramatic story of Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr.'s decade-long clash over the meaning of freedom¿and how their conflicting visions still divide American politics In the mid1950s, Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr. emerged as the leaders of two diametrically opposed freedom movements that changed the course of American history¿and still divide American politics. King mobilized civil rights activists under the banner of "freedom now," insisting that true freedom would not be realized until all people¿regardless of race¿were empowered politically, economically, and socially. Goldwater rallied conservatives to the cause of "extremism in defense of liberty," advocating radical individualism. In One Man's Freedom, Nicholas Buccola tells the compelling story of Goldwater and King's dramatic decadelong debate over the meaning of an allimportant American ideal. Part dual biography, part history, One Man's Freedom traces the actions and words of Goldwater and King over a crucial and eventful decade, from their dizzying rise through 1964, which ended with Goldwater's landslide defeat in the presidential election and King's Nobel Peace Prize. The book chronicles why Goldwater and King, who never met in person, came to view each other as perhaps the greatest threat to freedom in America. It explains how their ideas of freedom could be so vastly different, yet both so deeply rooted in American history and their times. And it shows how their disagreement continues to shape and explain politics today, when the bitter divisions between Republicans and Democrats often come down to the question of what kind of freedom Americans want¿the one defined by Goldwater or by King?

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Nicholas Buccola is professor of government and the Jules L. Whitehill Professor of Humanism and Ethics at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America (Princeton), which was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, and The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass. Bruce Lester Johnson is a London-based American actor, singer, and voice artist whose film and television credits include Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Ready Player One, and the miniseries Anansi Boys. He is a narrator of James Patterson and J. D. Barker's The Noise and Melanie Brown's memoir Brutally Honest.

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