The Cost of Liberty

The Cost of Liberty

Author: William Murchison

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2014-03-25

Total Pages: 123

ISBN-13: 1497635500

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“Makes a powerful and convincing case for restoring John Dickinson to his rightful place in the first rank of the Founders.” —The Washington Times The Cost of Liberty offers a sorely needed reassessment of a great patriot and misunderstood Founder. It has been more than a half century since a biography of John Dickinson appeared. Author William Murchison rectifies this mistake, bringing to life one of the most influential figures of the entire Founding period, a principled man whose gifts as writer, speaker, and philosopher only Jefferson came near to matching. In the process, Murchison destroys the caricature of Dickinson that has emerged from such popular treatments as HBO’s John Adams miniseries and the Broadway musical 1776. Dickinson is remembered mostly for his reluctance to sign the Declaration of Independence. But that reluctance, Murchison shows, had nothing to do with a lack of patriotism. In fact, Dickinson immediately took up arms to serve the colonial cause—something only one signer of the Declaration did. He stood on principle to oppose declaring independence at that moment, even when he knew that doing so would deal the “finishing blow” to his once-great reputation. Dubbed the “Penman of the Revolution,” Dickinson was not just a scribe but also a shaper of mighty events. From the 1760s through the late 1780s he was present at, and played a significant role in, every major assemblage where the Founders charted America’s path—a claim few others could make. Author of the landmark essays Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, delegate to the Continental Congress, key figure behind the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution, chief executive of both Pennsylvania and Delaware: Dickinson was, as one esteemed historian aptly put it, “the most underrated of all the Founders.” This lively biography gives a great Founder his long-overdue measure of honor.


The Price of Liberty

The Price of Liberty

Author: Claude Andrew Clegg III

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2009-09-11

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 080789558X

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In nineteenth-century America, the belief that blacks and whites could not live in social harmony and political equality in the same country led to a movement to relocate African Americans to Liberia, a West African colony established by the United States government and the American Colonization Society in 1822. In The Price of Liberty, Claude Clegg accounts for 2,030 North Carolina blacks who left the state and took up residence in Liberia between 1825 and 1893. By examining both the American and African sides of this experience, Clegg produces a textured account of an important chapter in the historical evolution of the Atlantic world. For almost a century, Liberian emigration connected African Americans to the broader cultures, commerce, communication networks, and epidemiological patterns of the Afro-Atlantic region. But for many individuals, dreams of a Pan-African utopia in Liberia were tempered by complicated relationships with the Africans, whom they dispossessed of land. Liberia soon became a politically unstable mix of newcomers, indigenous peoples, and "recaptured" Africans from westbound slave ships. Ultimately, Clegg argues, in the process of forging the world's second black-ruled republic, the emigrants constructed a settler society marred by many of the same exclusionary, oppressive characteristics common to modern colonial regimes.


What Price Liberty?

What Price Liberty?

Author: Ben Wilson

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13:

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Takes us through four centuries of British, American and European history, elaborating not just how civil liberties were constructed in the past, but how they were continually rethought - and re-fought - in response to modernity and puts into context the controversies of the past decade or so.


A Brief History of Liberty

A Brief History of Liberty

Author: David Schmidtz

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-09-19

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1444358790

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Through a fusion of philosophical, social scientific, and historical methods, A Brief History of Liberty provides a comprehensive, philosophically-informed portrait of the elusive nature of one of our most cherished ideals. Offers a succinct yet thorough survey of personal freedom Explores the true meaning of liberty, drawing philosophical lessons about liberty from history Considers the writings of key historical figures from Socrates and Erasmus to Hobbes, Locke, Marx, and Adam Smith Combines philosophical rigor with social scientific analysis Argues that liberty refers to a range of related but specific ideas rather than limiting the concept to one definition


The Liberty Book

The Liberty Book

Author: John Bona

Publisher: BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC

Published: 2016-09-01

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 1424552907

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News reports bring to our ears daily stories of further intrusion in our lives and increased regulations too many to number. America is losing its heritage of God-given freedoms, which were originally derived from biblical teaching. We sense that our well-sung liberties are being lost to a point of no return. The Liberty Book examines the Christian roots of liberty, idolatry, taxation, foundations for freedom, the right to bear arms, the great freedom documents in history, pro-life and liberty, land rights, social involvement, and more. With God’s help freedom can be revived. We must all work to pull America back from the cliffs-edge fall into tyranny. Our nation is again in search of genuine liberty under God. Discover what Bible-based liberty looks like and how it can be won for you and your children.


True Cost of Liberty

True Cost of Liberty

Author: Forrest Haggerty

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12-10

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9781734264678

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Stories of men who fought for freedom from the same small town.


The Cost of Rights

The Cost of Rights

Author: Stephen Holmes

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780393320336

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Laying bare the folly of some of our most cherished myths, this book presents a radically illuminating view of our most precious rights.


The Price of Liberty

The Price of Liberty

Author: Paul Conton

Publisher:

Published: 2019-12-11

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781673548730

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Kwesi, a dashing young man, comes of age as his country, Sianga, achieves independence from the British. He is certain of a bright future. As the years pass he watches his dreams crumble even as he serves the very government he blames for the deterioration. Eventually he comes face to face with a terrible decision, one that will affect the entire African continent. "Easy to read, hard to put down." Commonwealth Writers Prize winner.