On the cusp of the American Civil War; a new generation of reformers; including Theodore Parker; Frederick Douglass; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Martin Robison Delany; and Thomas Wentworth Higginson; took the lead in the antislavery struggle. Frustrated by political defeats; a more aggressive Slave Power; and the inability of early abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison to rid the nation of slavery; the New Romantics crafted fresh; often more combative approaches to the peculiar institution. Contrary to what many scholars have argued; however; they did not reject romantic reform in the process. Instead; the New Romantics roamed widely through romantic modes of thought; embracing not only the immediatism and perfectionism pioneered by Garrisonians but also new motifs and doctrines; including sentimentalism; self-culture; martial heroism; romantic racialism; and Manifest Destiny. This book tells the story of how antebellum America's most important intellectual current; romanticism; shaped the coming and course of the nation's bloodiest - and most revolutionary - conflict.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Janet Beebe PeoplesA book about TRUTH almost incidentally about the Civil Rights Movement.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Must read for Journalism StudentsBy E. HandleyGreat reading for film journalism students; a condemnation of the state of journalism in the United States; where popular media is paid for by advertising and based on zero content news.This is a history of the struggles inherent in making documentary films while adhering to truth in journalism. Blackside rather than allowing sensationalism or the funder’s reluctance to support controversial material chose to persist and prevail with the best interviews and story telling on this evolution of race relations in the USA.In this book one gets the sense of a man; Henry Hampton; quixotic and obsessed who pursued his ideals and accomplished more goals than he could have imagined.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. An Inspiring Book in So Many WaysBy Pamela YatesThis is such an inspiring story about the civil rights movement; documentary filmmaking and one determined filmmaker; Henry Hampton who brought the two together so that the leaders and the movement would live on in the present. Jon Else - with his cinematic acumen - is able to meld 3 time periods; the 1960s with all its ferment; the 1980s recounting of the civil rights movement of the 1960s in the seminal "Eyes on the Prize" series; and the present perspective. He also brings to the foreground one of the most important cultural institutions with a huge influence on the explosion of social justice documentary filmmaking today; BLACKSIDE and HENRY HAMPTON. This is a must read for activists; filmmakers; cinephiles; historians and anyone who just likes a righteous and well told story.
