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THE SOUL OF AMERICA
The Battle for Our Better Angels
THE SOUL OF AMERICA: The Battle for Our Better Angels is a timely look at tumultuous periods in American history when Presidents and ordinary citizens came together to defeat the forces of fear and hate.
How do we understand this present moment of crisis in American politics? In this new book, Meacham seeks to answer this question by looking back at critical times in history when hope overcame hatred. The current American climate of partisan division is not new, and by exploring past dark moments in the country's history, Meacham shows us how our "better angels" have again and again won the day. He paints revealing portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant; he brings the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Southern "Lost Cause" back to vivid life, as well as Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive movement; Woodrow Wilson and the backlash against immigrants in the First World War and the resurgence of the KKK in the 1920's; FDR and the "America First" movement of the 1930's; Truman, Eisenhower, and the reign of Joe McCarthy; and Lyndon Johnson's fight for civil rights.
John Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian and a contributing writer for The New York Times Book Review. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, American Gospel, and Franklin and Winston. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
John Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian and a contributing writer for The New York Times Book Review. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, American Gospel, and Franklin and Winston. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Published 2018-05-08 by Random House |
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Published 2018-05-08 by Random House |