Cover: The Two Faces of American Freedom, from Harvard University Press

Cover: The Two Faces of American Freedom in PAPERBACK

The Two Faces of American Freedom

Aziz Rana

Add to Cart

Product Details

PAPERBACK

$24.00 • £19.95 • €21.50

ISBN 9780674284333

Publication Date: 04/07/2014

432 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

World

Related Subjects

Educators: Request an online exam copy »What’s this?

Aziz Rana is Professor of Law at Cornell Law School.

Related Links

On WBUR’s Radio Open Source, listen to Aziz Rana, Francis Fukuyama, and others discuss Obama, Trump, and the many meanings of ‘America’ in the context of the Trump administration’s January 2017 travel ban and George Washington’s wish to build an “asylum for the oppressed”
Read Professor Rana’s essay in n+1 looking at the Obama administration in retrospect and considering the general decline of the center-left in American politics
Listen to Rana’s second appearance on the Jacobin podcast The Dig, featuring an extended discussion of the long-lingering Cold War domestic order, which Rana suggests ended only with the 2016 election of Donald Trump
On WBUR’s Radio Open Source, listen to Rana explain how America was founded as a homeland for exclusivist settlers and only much later reconceived as a nation of multiethnic, multicultural immigrants
At Jacobin Magazine, read an interview with Rana in which he discusses the United States as a “settler empire”
Watch Rana discuss The Two Faces of American Freedom at Labyrinth Books
View other titles in Law & Political Theory

Buy Elsewhere

Find at a Library »Cite This Book » About HUP eBooks About Exam Copies

Awards & Accolades

A Huffington Post Best Social and Political Awareness Book of the Year, 2010

Who’s Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Andrew S. Curran, from Harvard University Press

Recent News

Vivek Chibber, author of The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn, spoke with The Nation about the future of Marxist thought.
The End of Astronauts coauthors Donald Goldsmith and Sir Martin Rees made the case to Science Friday’s Ira Flatow that the cost of human space travel largely outweighs its benefits.
On NPR’s All Things Considered, A Full-Value Ruble author Kristy Ironside discussed the significance of McDonald’s pulling out of Russia in the wake of global outrage at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, author of Indentured Students, spoke with Public Books about the “private pain, public disinvestment” of student debt.
Fast Company published an excerpt from Carl D. Marci’s Rewired: Protecting Your Brain in the Digital Age on the effect on adult brains of shifts in media use.

Black lives matter. Black voices matter. A statement from HUP »

From Our Blog

Jacket: A Brief History of Equality, by Thomas Piketty, from Harvard University Press

Five Reasons Why You Should Read Thomas Piketty’s A Brief History of Equality

In his surprising and powerful new work, A Brief History of Equality, Thomas Piketty reminds us that the grand sweep of history gives us reasons to be optimistic. Over the centuries, he shows, we have been moving toward greater equality. We asked him about his impassioned new book: why he wrote it, how it’s optimistic, and what we need to do to continue making progress on creating an equitable world. …

Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library I Tatti Renaissance Library logo (bee)

I Tatti Renaissance Library

Loeb Classical Library

Murty Classical Library of India

About & Contact | Awards | Catalogs | Conference Exhibits | eBooks | Exam Copies | News | Order | Rights | Permissions | Search | Shopping Cart | Subjects & Series

Resources for: Authors | Booksellers & Librarians | Educators | Journalists | Readers

Harvard University Press offices are located at 79 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA & 8 Coldbath Square, London EC1R 5HL UK

© 2022 President and Fellows of Harvard College | HUP Privacy Policy • HU Additional EEA Privacy Disclosures

A Message from HUP about COVID-19 (April 2020)