{2026 New Release} Freedom Lost, Freedom Won : A Personal History of America by: Eugene Robinson Pulitzer Prize–winning former Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson tells our nation’s torturous racial history through his own family’s story, starting with his great-grandfather’s freedom from slavery and threading his way to his own narrative and reaching today’s Black Lives Matter movement, asking whether this time will be different. On March 27, 1829, a wealthy white planter and entrepreneur named Richard Fordham purchased four enslaved African Americans from a woman named Isabella Perman.

Robinson draws from an extensive family archive to provide a vivid story of both lineage and survival. He entwines his family's fight for freedom with this country's larger historical context to shed light on the roots of systemic racism. #newrelease #FreedomLostFreedomWon #History #EugeneRobinson