In the mid-1950s, Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr. emerged as the leaders of two diametrically opposed freedom movements that changed the course of American history鈥攁nd still divide American politics. King mobilized civil rights activists under the banner of 鈥渇reedom now,鈥� insisting that true freedom would not be realized until all people鈥攔egardless of race鈥攚ere empowered politically, economically, and socially. Goldwater rallied conservatives to the cause of 鈥渆xtremism in defense of liberty,鈥� advocating radical individualism. In One Man鈥檚 Freedom, Nicholas Buccola tells the compelling story of Goldwater and King鈥檚 dramatic decade-long debate over the meaning of an all-important American ideal.
The audiobook is narrated by Bruce Lester Johnson. Start listening to a sample chapter here.
About the Author
Nicholas Buccola is professor of government and the Jules L. Whitehill Professor of Humanism and Ethics at Claremont McKenna College. He is the author of The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America (快色直播), which was a New York Times Book Review Editors鈥� Choice, and The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass.
About the Narrator
Bruce Lester Johnson is a London-based American actor, singer, and voice artist whose film and television credits include Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Ready Player One, and the miniseries Anansi Boys. He is a narrator of James Patterson and J. D. Barker鈥檚 The Noise and Melanie Brown鈥檚 memoir Brutally Honest.