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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Meacham, Jon, author.     Subjects     National characteristics, American.     Social movements -- United States -- History.     United States -- Civilization.     United States -- History -- 18th century.     United States -- History -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Meacham, Jon, author.       by title:      The soul of America ...         MARC Display

The soul of America : the battle for our better angels / Jon Meacham. by Meacham, Jon, author. New York : Random House, [2018] Subjects National characteristics, American.   Social movements -- United States -- History.   United States -- Civilization.   United States -- History -- 18th century.   United States -- History -- 19th century. ISBN:  9780399589812 (hardcover) : 0399589813 (hardcover) Description:  xii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Introduction: To hope rather than to fear -- The confidence of the whole people: Visions of the Presidency, the ideas of progress and prosperity, and 'We, the people' -- The long shadow of Appomattox: The Lost Cause, the Ku Klux Klan, and Reconstruction -- With soul of flame and temper of steel: "The melting pot," TR and his "bully pulpit," and the Progressive promise -- A new and good thing in the world: The triumph of women's suffrage, the Red Scare, and a new Klan -- The crisis of the old order: The Great Depression, Huey Long, the New Deal, and America First -- Have you no sense of decency?: 'Making everyone middle class," the GI Bill, McCarthyism, and modern media -- What the hell is the presidency for?: 'Segregation forever, ' King's crusade, and LBJ in the crucible -- Conclusion: The first duty of an American citizen. Requests:  0 Summary:  Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, but 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, Jon Meacham brings 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. While 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aina Haina Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973 Me Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973 Me Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 973 Me Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973 Meacham Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973 Me Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973 Me Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973 Me Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kalihi-Palama Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973 Me Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapaa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973 Me Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973 Me Checked In Add Copy to MyList More Results: 1 2 3 Next

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