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From the author of the acclaimed The Fire Is Burning in Us comes the untold, dramatic story of the dramatic decade-long clash between Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr. over the meaning of freedom, and how their conflicting visions continue to divide American politics. In the mid-1950s, Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King Jr. emerged as leaders of two diametrically opposed freedom movements that changed the course of American history and continue to divide American politics. King rallied civil rights activists under the slogan “Freedom Now,” insisting that true freedom would only be achieved by empowering all people—regardless of race—politically, economically, and socially. As for Goldwater, he rallied conservatives to the cause of “radicalism in defense of freedom,” calling for radical individualism. In One Man's Freedom, Nicholas Buccola tells the poignant story of the dramatic, decade-long debate between Goldwater and King over the meaning of a momentous American ideal. One Man's Freedom combines biography and history, tracing the actions and words of Goldwater and King over a crucial and eventful decade, from their astonishing rise to 1964, which ended with Goldwater's crushing presidential defeat and King's Nobel Peace Prize win. The book chronicles the reasons why Goldwater and King, who had never met face to face, viewed each other as perhaps the greatest threat to freedom in America. He shows how their notions of freedom can be vastly different, yet deeply rooted in American history and their times. He shows how their disagreement still shapes and explains politics today, where sharp divisions between Republicans and Democrats often boil down to a question: What kind of freedom do Americans want—the one defined by Goldwater or the one defined by King?