The Pursuit of Equality in American History
- ISBN-10
- 0520032861
- ISBN-13
- 9780520032866
- Category
- Civil rights
- Pages
- 380
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1978-01-01
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Authors
- Jack Richon Pole, Professor J R Pole, Pole
Description
The author looks to the origins of equality in Greek thought and the idea's important in the eighteenth century to understand the tenacious attraction it has had for American over more than two hundred years of political, legal, and social controversy.
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