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Separate : The Story of Plessy V. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation by Steve Luxenberg (2020, Trade Paperback)

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Separate : The Story of Plessy V. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation, Paperback by Luxenberg, Steve, ISBN 0393357694, ISBN-13 9780393357691, Brand New, Free shipping in the US New York TimesThe New York Times Book Review

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ISBN-100393357694

ISBN-139780393357691

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Book TitleSeparate : the Story of Plessy V. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation

Number of Pages624 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2020

TopicUnited States / 19th Century, Legal History, African American

IllustratorYes

GenreLaw, History

AuthorSteve Luxenberg

FormatTrade Paperback

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Reviews[Luxenberg] is a fine writer... Separate reminds us that our history is not simply a narrative of greater and greater freedom., Informative, engaging, exquisitely written, sensitive to individuals' frailties, flaws, and inconsistencies, by turns inspiring and dispiriting, Separate is a splendid work of history., In documenting this country's fateful journey from slavery through thwarted Reconstruction to segregation, Luxenberg paints on a broad canvas, elegantly narrating several captivating and scrupulously researched stories that converge in Plessy v. Ferguson.... [F]ascinating., Luxenberg gives a three-dimensional and almost novelistic treatment to the players involved, drawing on diaries, letters and archival research., Separate vividly tells the story of how far our country had to go to repudiate its commitments to a racial double standard., Absorbing....so many surprises, absurdities and ironies....Segregation is not one story but many. Luxenberg has written his with energy, elegance and a heart aching for a world without it.--James Goodman, New York Times Book Review Luxenberg has chosen a fresh way to tell the story of Plessy.... Separate is deeply researched, and it wears its learning lightly. It's a storytelling kind of book....[He] skillfully works the military and the political background into his narrative.--Louis Menand, The New Yorker [Luxenberg] is a fine writer who tells this story in an engaging manner.... Separate reminds us that our history is not simply a narrative of greater and greater freedom.--Eric Foner, Washington Post Offers a striking view of Reconstruction and of the tragic stillbirth of freedom in that era....Luxenberg writes at the outset of his book that the story of Plessy is a reminder that 'history is made, not ordained.' In his moving portrait of the many figures who played a role in the case, he confirms that idea as well as another: that even the most hopeless fool's errand can emerge, in time, as an unassailable triumph.--Charles S. Dameron, Wall Street Journal A dazzlingly well-reported chronicle of an important period....Luxenberg repeatedly manages to tell us stories that capture both the hope and hopelessness that has been central to America's long argument about race....An eye-opening journey through some of the darkest passages and haunting corridors of American history.--Terence Samuel, NPR A surprising, compelling, and brilliant milestone in understanding the history of race relations in America.--Bob Woodward, author of Fear: Trump in the White House Riveting and deeply researched, Separate tells the story surrounding one of the nation's most devastating acts: drawing a sharp color line between black and white after the Civil War. The Plessy case was a knife that cleaved America, and Steve Luxenberg brilliantly reveals that divide with his rich narrative of admirable and flawed characters caught in the battle over racial justice. Every paragraph resonates in today's headlines.--Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs, and professor of history, Tulane University Forensically researched, deeply moving, devastatingly relevant.--Katherine Boo, author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity This is a compulsively readable work of serious history, the absorbing and timely story of a disastrous U.S. Supreme Court decision, freshly told through the lives of those directly involved. Steve Luxenberg's scholarship is deep and impressive; his writing even more so. This is history as it was lived, giving us a sense not only of the deep racism of the period, but the struggle of decent men and women to overcome it, in society and, most importantly, in themselves.--Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down and Hue 1968: A Turning Point in the American War in Vietnam A magisterial assessment of a U.S. Supreme Court's grievous moral collapse...a definitive work on the 1896 legal drama that afflicts us to this day.--David Simon, author and creator of HBO's The Wire, An ambitious and deeply researched nonfiction account.... [Luxenberg] draws on letters, diaries and archival collections to bring the true story to life., In Separate, the context and aftermath of the court's ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson are woven into a nuanced history of America's struggles in the 19th century as a civil war was fought, slavery ended and a new, complex racial politics haltingly took form., Dazzlingly well-reported.... [A]n eye-opening journey through some of the darkest passages and haunting corridors of American history.

SynopsisPlessy v. Ferguson is one of the most compelling cases of the nineteenth century: its outcome embraced and protected segregation, and its reverberations are still felt into the twenty-first. Award-winning author Steve Luxenberg draws from letters, diaries, and archival collections to tell the story through the eyes of the people caught up in the case. Sweeping, swiftly paced, and richly detailed, Separate provides an urgently needed exploration of our nation's most devastating divide. "Dazzlingly well- reported. . . . An eye- opening journey through some of the darkest passages and haunting corridors of American history." -- Terence Samuel, NPR "Reminds us that our history is not simply a narrative of greater and greater freedom." -- Eric Foner, Washington Post "A fresh way to tell the story. . . . Separate is deeply researched, and it wears its learning lightly." -- Louis Menand, The New Yorker, A New York Times Editors' Choice Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award Longlisted for the Cundill History Prize "Absorbing.... Segregation is not one story but many. Luxenberg has written his with energy, elegance and a heart aching for a world without it." --James Goodman, The New York Times Book Review, A shattering narrative of how a nation embraced "separation" and its pernicious consequences. Plessy v. Ferguson , the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal," drew remarkably little attention when the justices announced their decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the nineteenth century. Told through the eyes of the people caught up in the case--the New Orleans resisters who brought it, the best-selling author recruited to argue it, the justices who heard it-- Separate wends its way through a half-century of American history, beginning at the dawn of the railroad age, germinating in the soil of slavery and the Civil War, and then bursting forth in the aftermath of Reconstruction as separation took root in nearly every aspect of American life. Winner of the 2016 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, Separate is a sweeping, swiftly paced, and surprising account of our nation's most devastating divide., Separate is a myth-shattering narrative of one of the most consequential Supreme Court cases of the nineteenth century, Plessy v. Ferguson . The 1896 ruling embraced racial segregation, and its reverberations are still felt today. Drawing on letters, diaries, and archival collections, Steve Luxenberg reveals the origins of racial separation and its pernicious grip on American life. He tells the story through the lives of the people caught up in the case: Louis Martinet, who led the resisters from the mixed-race community of French New Orleans; Albion Tourgée, a best-selling author and the country's best-known white advocate for civil rights; Justice Henry Billings Brown, from antislavery New England, whose majority ruling sanctioned separation; Justice John Harlan, the Southerner from a slaveholding family whose singular dissent cemented his reputation as a steadfast voice for justice. Sweeping, swiftly paced, and richly detailed, Separate is an urgently needed exploration of our nation's most devastating divide.