- "Serves as a roadmap for navigating ongoing tensions that persist in twenty-first-century liberalism." - Mark E. Kann, author of Punishmen, Prisons, and Patriarchy - "Amplifies our understanding of Douglass's normative political imagination." - Thomas A. Spragens, Jr., author of Civic Liberalism - "Well-conceived, well-researched, and well-argued.... A balanced, judicious, innovative case for Douglass's enduring vitality." - Peter C. Myers, author of Frederick Douglass - "A nuanced portrait that illuminates both Douglass and his place in American intellectual history." - Damon W. Root, Reason Magazine - "A well-written, incisive work that illuminates Frederick Douglass as an activist and political philosopher." - CHOICE