TY - BOOK AU - Holly, Jackson. TI - American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Counterculture Shaped the Nation SN - 978-0525573098 U1 - 303.4840JAC PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - Crown N1 - Includes index N2 - On July 4, 1826, as Americans lit firecrackers to celebrate the country's fiftieth birthday, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were on their deathbeds. They would leave behind a groundbreaking political system and a growing economy--as well as the glaring inequalities that had undermined the American experiment from its beginning. The young nation had outlived the men who made it, but could it survive intensifying divisions over the very meaning of the land of the free? ER -