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Whose Freedom?: The Battle over America's Most Important Idea

Lakoff, an adviser to the Democratic party, shows that the conservative revolution has remade freedom in its own image and deployed it as a central weapon on the front lines of everything from the war on terror to the battles over religion in the classroom and abortion. Unabridged. 6 CDs.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 274 pages

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