#1 NY Situations BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jon Meacham helps us understand today’s second in American politics and existence by looking back again at critical occasions in our history when wish overcame department and fear.

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Our current climate of partisan fury isn’t new, and in The Spirit of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the “better angels of our nature” have got about The Spirit of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels frequently won your day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and various other presidents, including Ulysses S. Give, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson, and illuminating the courage of such important resident activists as Martin Luther King, Jr., early suffragettes Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt, civil rights pioneers Rosa Parks and John Lewis, First Woman Eleanor Roosevelt, and Army-McCarthy hearings lawyer Joseph N. Welch, Meacham brings vividly alive turning points in American history. He writes about the Civil War, Reconstruction, as well as the birth of the Shed Cause; the backlash against immigrants in the First Globe War as well as the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s; the battle for women’s rights; the demagoguery of Huey Very long and Dad Coughlin as well as the isolationist work of America First in the years before Globe Battle II; the anti-Communist witch-hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy; and Lyndon Johnson’s crusade against Jim Crow. Each one of these dramatic hours inside our national life have been shaped by the contest to lead the country to look forward rather than back again, to assert hope over fear-a struggle that continues nonetheless.

As the American story has not always-or even often-been heroic, we have been sustained by a belief happening even in the gloomiest of that time period. In this uplifting publication, Meacham reassures us, “The good news is that we attended through such darkness before”-as, over and over, Lincoln’s better angels have found a way to prevail.

Praise for The Soul of America

“Brilliant, fascinating, well-timed . With compelling narratives of past eras of strife and disenchantment, Meacham offers wisdom for our own time.”-Walter Isaacson

“Gripping and uplifting, The Soul of America is normally Jon Meacham’s declaration of his beliefs in America.”-Newsday

“Meacham gives readers a long-term perspective on American background and a reason to believe the spirit of America is ultimately among kindness and caring, not rancor and paranoia.”-USA Today