Unworthy Republic by Claudio Saunt
A masterful and unsettling history of Indian Removal, the forced migration of Native Americans across the Mississippi River in the 1830s and the state-sponsored theft of their lands.
"Unworthy Republic is a powerful and lucid account, weaving together events with the people who experienced them up close.. Saunt has written an unflinching book that reckons with this history and its legacy." -- Jennifer Szalai - The New York Times
"[Unworthy Republic] is a major achievement… [Saunt] manages to do something truly rare: destroy the illusion that history’s course is inevitable and recover the reality of the multiple possibilities that confronted contemporaries." -- Nick Romeo - The Washington Post
"[A] much-needed rendering of a disgraceful episode in American history that has been too long misunderstood." -- Peter Cozzens - The Wall Street Journal
"Unworthy Republic is a study in power. It describes, in detail, the coming together of money, rhetoric, political ambition, and white-supremacist idealism. Saunt shows his readers the cost of a racial caste system in the United States." -- David Treuer - Foreign Affairs
"[Unworthy Republic] is a haunting story of racialized cruelty and greed, which came to define a pivotal period in U.S. and indigenous history alike... As Saunt persuasively observes, we have yet to reckon with them today." -- Caitlin Fitz
"One of the most important books published on U.S. history in recent years and should be required reading for all Americans." -- Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History, Harvard University, author of Empire of Cotton
"[Unworthy Republic] is a major achievement… [Saunt] manages to do something truly rare: destroy the illusion that history’s course is inevitable and recover the reality of the multiple possibilities that confronted contemporaries." -- Nick Romeo - The Washington Post
"[A] much-needed rendering of a disgraceful episode in American history that has been too long misunderstood." -- Peter Cozzens - The Wall Street Journal
"Unworthy Republic is a study in power. It describes, in detail, the coming together of money, rhetoric, political ambition, and white-supremacist idealism. Saunt shows his readers the cost of a racial caste system in the United States." -- David Treuer - Foreign Affairs
"[Unworthy Republic] is a haunting story of racialized cruelty and greed, which came to define a pivotal period in U.S. and indigenous history alike... As Saunt persuasively observes, we have yet to reckon with them today." -- Caitlin Fitz
"One of the most important books published on U.S. history in recent years and should be required reading for all Americans." -- Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History, Harvard University, author of Empire of Cotton
Claudio Saunt is the Richard B. Russell Professor in American History at the University of Georgia. He is the author of award-winning books, including A New Order of Things; Black, White, and Indian; and West of the Revolution. He lives in Athens, Georgia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393609844 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393609847 |
| Title | Unworthy Republic |
| Author | Claudio Saunt |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2020-05-19 |
| Number of pages | 416 |
| Prizes | Winner of Bancroft Prize 2021, Winner of Ridenhour Book Prize 2021, Winner of Robert F. Kennedy Book Award 2021, Short-listed for Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award 2021, Long-listed for Cundill History Prize 2020, Long-listed for National Book Award 2020 |
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