How Long to Read A Rebirth of Freedom

How Long Does it Take to Read A Rebirth of Freedom?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 50 minutes to read A Rebirth of Freedom by John Crocker

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Description

A Rebirth of Freedom is a personal and intellectual biography of an American historian Thomas Payne Govan, and includes a selection of his essays. Govan was a southerner who, with his wife, rebelled against the racism of the region, against the South's pride in the "Lost Cause" of the Civil War, and the myth of a pastoral and agrarian past superior to the rest of the country. As a graduate student at Vanderbilt, he called himself "a liberal with socialist leanings." Later, as a budding American historian during the 1940s and 1950s, he was forced by his research to change radically: he became a Hamiltonian conservative in government and finance, and, heavily influenced by Reinhold Niebuhr's The Nature and Destiny of Man, became a pragmatist in philosophy and a Christian in religion. On this journey he was almost alone among his peers. The historian and the theologian had become one, each interpreting the other. His highly relevant message calls us back to our political and religious roots and to "a rebirth of freedom." Govan taught American history for eight years at the University of the South, interrupted by three years as an Army historian during Word War II. In 1952 he left the University on a fellowship and never returned because the University refused to desegregate its Episcopal seminary. He left on moral grounds, relinquishing the history department chairmanship, a full professor's salary and tenure. Two years of adjunct teaching at Tulane were followed by five years as Executive Secretary for Faculty Work of the Episcopal Church where he had a major impact on the Church's thinking about higher education. Finally in 1962 he returned to history teaching as a full tenured professor at NYU, and in 1967, moved to the University of Oregon for his last ten years. In 1959 he published Nicholas Biddle, Nationalist and Public Banker, 1786-1844, which completely exonerated Biddle of guilt for the failure of the Second National Bank. Govan's conclusions have borne the test of time ever since. He also co-authored with Forrest MacDonald and Leslie E. Decker, a college American history text,The Last Best Hope, 1972. He was also a prolific essayist and reviewer. As a historian, Govan was preoccupied with the nature of human freedom and justice and how they can be maintained with and by political order. He found the answer in the English common law tradition from which the American Constitution is descended. His primary interests were in the economics and politics of the American Revolution and the ante-bellum South, the causes and nature of the Civil War, and the conflict between the liberal and conservative traditions in United States history. He believed that the two most important issues over which Americans have argued and fought were slavery (race) and the proper relationship between the federal government and the states and individual citizens (states rights versus federal authority). These issues still remain central but unresolved in the economic and political life of our nation. Govan's uniqueness lay in his evolution as a historian and theologian, each informing the other. He became a theologian whose profession was to write American history. His theology transcended the distinction between "civil" versus "church" religion and "secular" versus "church" history. His purpose was to "use Biblical theology (and the Biblical view of human nature) as a clue to understanding the whole course of American history to show that the English and American constitutions and laws are "demythologized" versions of Biblical teaching and that history [is] a name for God's Providence."

How long is A Rebirth of Freedom?

A Rebirth of Freedom by John Crocker is 590 pages long, and a total of 147,500 words.

This makes it 199% the length of the average book. It also has 180% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Rebirth of Freedom Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 26 minutes to read A Rebirth of Freedom aloud.

What Reading Level is A Rebirth of Freedom?

A Rebirth of Freedom is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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