Crusaders for Freedom (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry Steele Commager
- First Published: 1962
- Time of Work: 1215–1950
- Setting: The United States, Europe, Israel, China, Argentina, and the Philippines
- Principal Characters: Thomas Paine, William Lloyd Garrison, Roger Williams, Hans Christian Andersen, Jane Addams, Horace Mann, Susan B. Anthony, Fridtjof Nansen, John Quincy Adams, Harriet Tubman
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: Civil rights, Social action, Teaching or teachers, Freedom, Revolutionaries, Abolitionists, Authors or writers, Slavery or slaves, Human rights, Preaching, Refugees, Women’s rights, Biography
- Locales: Europe, United States, Argentina, China, Israel, Philippines
Form and Content
Henry Steele Commager’s Crusaders for Freedom is a ringing defense of basic human rights told through the stories of more than forty heroic persons and groups who, at crucial points in history, fought to define and defend those liberties. Commager manages to weave a multitude of “mini-biographies” into a coherent narrative, taking full advantage of the many instances in which the heroes’ stories overlap.
The life accounts are told in chapters that are organized by the type of liberty being discussed. Eight chapters cover the rights of...
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