The triumph of liberty: a 2,000-year history, told through the lives of freedom's greatest championsA dramatic narrative history of liberty from ancient times to the present is told through the inspiring life stories of 65 heroes and heroines from the crisis of the Roman Republic to struggles for women's rights.l |
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User Review - Jane Doe - KirkusThe varieties of human aspirations to be free, deftly conveyed in a volume of biographical portraits.Stories of how humans strive to satisfy their thirst for freedom seem always to move us. Powell ... Read full review
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| Title | The triumph of liberty: a 2,000-year history, told through the lives of freedom's greatest champions |
| Author | Jim Powell |
| Publisher | Free Press, 2000 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | May 5, 2008 |
| Length | 574 pages |
| Subjects | › History / World Political Science / Civil Rights Political Science / General Political Science / Political Freedom |
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