October 23, 1998

Noted Social Historian Traces Changing Notions of Freedom in the Hearts and Minds of Americans

By KAREN J. WINKLER

In a departure from mainstream scholarship and his own past work, Eric Foner takes 'a gamble'

Freedom. Americans know what it means, right? They're the people who enshrined freedom in the heart of their new nation.

But do we really understand the concept? That's the question the historian Eric Foner asks in his new book, The Story of American Freedom, just published by W.W. Norton.

Sweeping from the Founding Fathers to

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