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A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights

This article is about the 2001 book by Jesse Jackson Jr.. For other uses, see A More Perfect Union (disambiguation).

A More Perfect Union
AuthorJesse Jackson Jr. with Frank E. Watkins
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPolitical analysis
PublisherWelcome Rain Publishers
Publication date
October 15, 2001 (paperback April 25, 2008)
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages420
ISBN1-56649-186-X (Paperback ISBN 1-56649-294-7, ISBN 978-1-56649-186-0)
OCLC48254349
Preceded byLegal Lynching: The Death Penalty and America's Future (2001) (with Jesse Jackson, Sr. and Bruce Shapiro) 

A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights or simply A More Perfect Union is non-fiction political analysis written by United States Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. in collaboration with Frank E.Watkins. Watkins is a political theorist, activist and was the press secretary to Jackson at the time. It was released in hardcover format on October 15, 2001, and in paperback format on April 25, 2008.[1][2] The material for Jackson's book, his third, came from three trips he took in 1997–98 to American Civil War battlefields.[3] Although Watkins is credited, the biographical content of the book is written as a first person narrative as if written solely by Jackson.

The National Park Service has twenty-eight national Civil War historic sites.[4] Jackson and White visited approximately twenty battlefields in August 1997, December 1997 and the spring of 1998.[4][5] Jackson's wife, Sandi Jackson, participated in the third trip.[5] The trips heightened a belief of Jackson's that race as it relates to African Americans has been the focal point of social and political existence in American history.[5][6] Since Jackson is not the first to present such a realization, he presents a north–south schism lens through which to view the congressional politics of race.[6]

The book contains about 75 pages of biographical/autobiographical content which provide context for the subsequent political analysis. Critical reviews do not analyze the biographical content.[6][7] Instead, the reviews focus on the political analysis of race, economic issues, geographical divide, and states' rights as well as the constitutional amendments proposed in this book.

  1. ^ Jackson Jr, Jesse; Watkins, Frank E. (2008). A More Perfect Union (Hardcover). ISBN 978-1566491860.
  2. ^ A More Perfect Union (Paperback). 2008. ISBN 978-1566492942.
  3. ^ Stanton, Robert G. (2001-05-17). "Rally on the High Ground". National Park Service. Archived from the original on 2 May 2008. Retrieved 2008-05-23.
  4. ^ a b Kilian, Michael (2000-05-09). "U.S. Urged to Discuss Slavery at War Sites". Chicago Tribune. Newsbank. Retrieved 2008-05-23.
  5. ^ a b c Jackson-White, p. 15.
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