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ISBN10: 0399589813, ISBN13: 9780399589812, [publisher: Random House USA Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. With clarity and purpose, Meacham explores contentious periods and how presidents and citizens came together to defeat the forces of anger, intolerance, and extremism. 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 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. 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 ...
ISBN10: 0399589813, ISBN13: 9780399589812, [publisher: Random House, New York] Hardcover First Edition Octavo, 402 pages; VG/VG; spine red, with white lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; mild shelf wear and soiling; price uncut '$30.00'; signed flat by Meacham at title page; contains black and white photos; pages clean; shelved below Front Counter. 1350435. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. [Rockville, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2018]
New York: Random House, Date: 2018. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 402 pages; VG/VG; spine red, with white lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; mild shelf wear and soiling; price uncut '$30.00'; signed flat by Meacham at title page; contains black and white photos; pages clean; shelved below Front Counter. 1350435. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. 2018. Random House ISBN 0399589813 US
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