The Soul of America

The Soul of America

by Jon Meacham

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"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. 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 presidents including, besides Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Woo

ISBN: 9780399589829

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"This book does a wonderful job telling the American story."

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"“To hear such voices is to be reminded of what we have lost, but also what can one day be recaptured.” This book does a wonderful job telling the American story. We are a giant ball of contradictions: Hope and fear, racism and progress, division and unity."

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