{"product_id":"the-soul-of-america-the-battle-for-our-better-angels-hardcover","title":"The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJon Meacham\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF OPRAH'S \"BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH\" - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR - \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor \u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003eSouthern Living\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in \u003ci\u003eThe Soul of America\u003c\/i\u003e 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. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson, and illuminating the courage of such influential citizen activists as Martin Luther King, Jr., early suffragettes Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt, civil rights pioneers Rosa Parks and John Lewis, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Army-McCarthy hearings lawyer Joseph N. Welch, Meacham brings vividly to life turning points in American history. He writes about the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the birth of the Lost Cause; the backlash against immigrants in the First World War and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s; the fight for women's rights; the demagoguery of Huey Long and Father Coughlin and the isolationist work of America First in the years before World War II; the anti-Communist witch-hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy; and Lyndon Johnson's crusade against Jim Crow. Each of these dramatic hours in our national life have been shaped by the contest to lead the country to look forward rather than back, to assert hope over fear--a struggle that continues even now. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile the American story has not always--or even often--been heroic, we have been sustained by a belief in progress even in the gloomiest of times. In this inspiring book, Meacham reassures us, \"The good news is that we have come through such darkness before\"--as, time and again, Lincoln's better angels have found a way to prevail.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eThe Soul of America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Brilliant, fascinating, timely . . . With compelling narratives of past eras of strife and disenchantment, Meacham offers wisdom for our own time.\"\u003cb\u003e--Walter Isaacson\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Gripping and inspiring, \u003ci\u003eThe Soul of America\u003c\/i\u003e is Jon Meacham's declaration of his faith in America.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"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.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJon Meacham \u003c\/b\u003eis a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. The author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers \u003ci\u003eThomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Franklin and Winston, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDestiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, \u003c\/i\u003ehe is a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University, a contributing writer for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand a fellow of the Society of American Historians. Meacham lives in Nashville and in Sewanee with his wife and children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 9.3 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 08, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978478125357,"sku":"9780399589812","price":31.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/d0x5aGNscVROc09DLzRKVC9WU1NaUT09.webp?v=1775805388","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-soul-of-america-the-battle-for-our-better-angels-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}