The Broken Heart of America
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“Rooting today’s racism in yesterday’s conquest of indigenous people and enslavement of kidnapped people from Africa makes The Broken Heart of America a book for our times.”
Los Angeles Times
A Huffington Post Pick of Adult Books about Antiracism & Activism
Winner of the 2021 Missouri History Book Award
An Amazon Editor’s Top Pick in History
A history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of St. Louis.
"A masterpiece that both haunts and inspires." —Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water
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.
St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal. But it was once also America's most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War's first general emancipation, and the nation's first general strike—a legacy of resistance that endures.
A blistering history of a city's rise and decline, The Broken Heart of America will forever change how we think about the United States.
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