After the Miracle Audiobook Libro.fm

In this powerful new history New York Times bestselling author Max Wallace draws on groundbreaking research to reframe Helen Kellers journey after the miracle at the water pump vividly bringing to light her rarely discussed lifelong fight for social justice across gender class race and ability

Raised in Alabama she sent shockwaves through the South when she launched a public broadside against Jim Crow and donated to the NAACP She used her fame to oppose American intervention in WWI She spoke out against Hitler the month he took power in 1933 and embraced the antifascist cause during the Spanish Civil War She was one of the first public figures to alert the world to the evils of Apartheid raising money to defend Nelson Mandela when he faced the death penalty for High Treason and she lambasted Joseph McCarthy at the height of the Cold War even as her contemporaries shied away from his notorious witch hunt But who was this revolutionary figure

She was Helen Keller

From books to movies to Barbie dolls most mainstream portrayals of Keller focus heavily on her struggles as a deafblind childportraying her Teacher Annie Sullivan as a miracle worker This narrativewhich has often made Keller a secondary character in her own storyhas resulted in few people knowing that her greatest accomplishment was not learning to speak but what she did with her voice when she found it

After the Miracle is a muchneeded corrective to this antiquated narrative In this first major biography of Keller in decades Max Wallace reveals that the lionization of Sullivan at the expense of her famous pupil was no accident and calls attention to Kellers efforts as a cardcarrying socialist fierce antiracist and progressive disability advocate Despite being raised in an era when eugenics and discrimination were commonplace Keller consistently challenged the media for its ableist coverage and was one of the first activists to highlight the links between disability and capitalism even as she struggled against the expectations and prejudices of those closest to her

Peeling back the curtain that obscured Kellers political crusades in favor of her inspirational childhood After the Miracle chronicles the complete legacy of one of the 20th centurys most extraordinary figures