Crusaders for Freedom | Crusaders for Freedom

At a glance:

Author: Henry Steele Commager
First Published: 1962
Time of Work: 1215–1950
Setting: The United States, Europe, Israel, China, Argentina, and the Philippines
Principal Characters: Thomas Paine, William Lloyd Garrison, Roger Williams, Hans Christian Andersen, Jane Addams, Horace Mann, Susan B. Anthony, Fridtjof Nansen, John Quincy Adams, Harriet Tubman
Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
Subjects: Civil rights, Social action, Teaching or teachers, Freedom, Revolutionaries, Abolitionists, Authors or writers, Slavery or slaves, Human rights, Preaching, Refugees, Women’s rights, Biography
Locales: Europe, United States, Argentina, China, Israel, Philippines

Form and Content

Henry Steele Commager’s Crusaders for Freedom is a ringing defense of basic human rights told through the stories of more than forty heroic persons and groups who, at crucial points in history, fought to define and defend those liberties. Commager manages to weave a multitude of “mini-biographies” into a coherent narrative, taking full advantage of the many instances in which the heroes’ stories overlap.

The life accounts are told in chapters that are organized by the type of liberty being discussed. Eight chapters cover the rights of...

Crusaders for Freedom | Crusaders for Freedom

At a glance:

Form and Content

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