{"product_id":"the-soul-of-america-the-battle-for-our-better-angels","title":"The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e#1 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBESTSELLER ‚Ä¢ Pulitzer Prize‚Äìwinning 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚ÄúGripping and inspiring, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Soul of America \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eis Jon Meacham‚Äôs declaration of his faith in America.‚Äù‚Äî\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNewsday\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eONE OF OPRAH‚ÄôS ‚ÄúBOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH‚Äù ‚Ä¢ A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor, Southern Living\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Soul of America\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the ‚Äúbetter angels of our nature‚Äù 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eHe 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‚Äôs 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‚Äôs 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‚Äîa struggle that continues even now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile the American story has not always‚Äîor even often‚Äîbeen heroic, we have been sustained by a belief in progress even in the gloomiest of times. In this inspiring book, Meacham reassures us, ‚ÄúThe good news is that we have come through such darkness before‚Äù‚Äîas, time and again, Lincoln‚Äôs better angels have found a way to prevail.\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"javascript:void(0)\" role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expander-toggle='{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}'\u003e\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Random House Trade","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50548212236573,"sku":"9780399589829","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9780399589829.jpg?v=1761675950","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/the-soul-of-america-the-battle-for-our-better-angels","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}