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“Gripping and inspiring, The Soul of America is Jon Meacham’s declaration of his faith in America.” (Newsday) “Meacham gives readers a long-term perspective on American history and a reason to believe the soul of America is ultimately one of kindness and caring, not rancor and paranoia.” (USA Today)
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels is a nonfiction book published in 2018 by American journalist, historian, and presidential biographer Jon Meacham. The book explores periods of US history during which the politics of fear battled against the politics of hope.
Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the "better angels of our nature" have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and other presidents, including Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S ...
Apr 30, 2019 · Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer.The author of the New York Times bestsellers Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Franklin and Winston, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, and The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, he is a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt ...
Apr 30, 2019 · The author of the New York Times bestsellers Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Franklin and Winston, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, and The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, he is a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt ...
May 8, 2018 · THE SOUL OF AMERICA THE BATTLE FOR OUR BETTER ANGELS. by Jon Meacham ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 8, 2018 Meacham ably depicts our nation’s struggles to live up to Lincoln’s words, but he oversells the notion that the fruits of...
May 20, 2018 · So Mr. Meacham writes in his new book “The Soul of America: The Battle For Our Better Angels.” Mr. Meacham, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, perfectly writes a mix of philosophy and history ...
