Freedom’s Dominion (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY • An “important, deeply affecting—and regrettably relevant” (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppress others and their fight against the government that got in their way American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world.

But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom—their freedom to dominate others.