"Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America, Meacham shows us how what Lincoln called "the better angels of our nature" have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln, and other presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, 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 ArmyMcCarthy hearings lawyer Joseph N. Welch, Meacham brings vividly to life turning points in American history. He writes about the CivilWar, Reconstruction, and the birth of the Lost Cause the backlash against immigrants in the First World War and the resurgence of the Klu Klux Klan in the 1920s the fight for womens rights the demagoguery of Huey Long and Father Coughlin and the isolationist work of America First in the years before World War II the antiCommunist witchhunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy and Lyndon Johnsons crusade against Jim Crow. Each of these dramatic, crucial turning points, the battle to lead the country to look forward rather than back, to assert hope over fear, was joined, even as it is today. While the American story has not alwaysor even oftenbeen heroic, and the outcome of that battle has never been certain, in this inspiring...

Binding: Paperback;416 pages; Publisher: Random House USA Inc; Classification: HBJK; Weight: 710 g; Dimensions: 156 x 233 x 32

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