American Decades
The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority
Nonfiction work
By: Rose Wilder Lane
Date: 1943
Source: Lane, Rose Wilder. The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority. Fiftieth Anniversary Edition. San Francisco: Fox & Wilkes, 1993.
About the Author: Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968) was the first child of Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Her family later became famous thanks to the Little House children's book series written by her mother, which Lane herself edited and heavily modified. As a columnist and author in her own right, Lane explored ideas about individual rights and international affairs and was one of a handful of highly visible U.S. women political commentators in the first half of the twentieth century.
Introduction
The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority served as Rose Wilder Lane's personal manifesto, an explanation of a political philosophy...
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1940's Government and Politics Primary Sources
- "The Four Freedoms"
- "Franklin D. Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor Speech"
- Letter from James Y. Sakamoto to President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority
- "Letters from Los Alamos"
- The Road to Serfdom
- "Serve Your Country in the WAVES"
- "Charter of the United Nations Preamble"
- "President Harry S. Truman's Address Before a Joint Session of Congress, March 12, 1947"
- The Testimony of J. Edgar Hoover Before the House Un-American Activities Committee
- "Address by General George C. Marshall Secretary of State of the United States at Harvard University, June 5, 1947"
- "Dewey Defeats Truman"
- "Communists Should Not Teach in American Colleges"
- "Wipe Out Discrimination"
- "Indian Self-Government"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
