The Broken Heart of America Social Science Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies Emigration & Immigration History African American & Black Isabel Wilkerson gives us a

Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores

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The Broken Heart of America Social Science Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Black Studies Emigration & Immigration History African American & Black Isabel Wilkerson gives us aFrom an award winning historian, a groundbreaking portrait of pervasive exploitation and radical resistance in America, told through the turbulent history of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past.