{"id":46737,"date":"2018-06-04T09:49:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T15:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=46737"},"modified":"2018-05-30T07:59:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T13:59:53","slug":"pulitzer-prize-winning-author-jon-meacham-will-be-at-off-square-books-wednesday-june-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/pulitzer-prize-winning-author-jon-meacham-will-be-at-off-square-books-wednesday-june-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Jon Meacham Will Be at Off Square Books Wednesday, June 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have been here before. In this timely and revealing book, The Soul of America<\/strong><\/em>, the\u00a0<\/span>Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Meacham<\/strong> helps us understand the present moment in American\u00a0<\/span>politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when\u00a0<\/span>hope overcame division and fear.<\/span><\/p>\n

With clarity and purpose, Meacham explores contentious periods and\u00a0<\/span>how presidents and citizens came together to defeat the forces of\u00a0<\/span>anger, intolerance, and extremism. Our current climate of partisan\u00a0<\/span>fury is not new, and in The Soul of America<\/em> Meacham shows us how\u00a0<\/span>what Abraham Lincoln<\/strong> called \u201cthe better angels of our nature\u201d have\u00a0<\/span>repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and\u00a0<\/span>other presidents, including Ulysses S. Grant<\/strong>, Theodore Roosevelt<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/span>Woodrow Wilson<\/strong>, Franklin D. Roosevelt<\/strong>, Harry S. Truman<\/strong>, Dwight\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Eisenhower<\/strong>, and Lyndon B. Johnson<\/strong>, and illuminating the courage of\u00a0<\/span>such influential citizen activists as Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/strong>, early suffragettes Alice Paul<\/strong> and\u00a0<\/span>Carrie Chapman Catt<\/strong>, civil rights pioneers Rosa Parks<\/strong> and John Lewis<\/strong>, First Lady Eleanor\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Roosevelt<\/strong>, and Army-McCarthy hearings lawyer Joseph N. Welch<\/strong>, Meacham brings vividly to\u00a0<\/span>life turning points in American history. He writes about the Civil War<\/strong>, Reconstruction<\/strong>, and the\u00a0<\/span>birth of the Lost Cause<\/strong>; the backlash against immigrants in the First World War<\/strong> and the\u00a0<\/span>resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan<\/strong> in the 1920s; the fight for women\u2019s rights; the demagoguery of\u00a0<\/span>Huey Long<\/strong> and Father Coughlin<\/strong> and the isolationist work of America First<\/strong> in the years before\u00a0<\/span>World War II<\/strong>; the anti-Communist witch-hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy<\/strong>; and Lyndon\u00a0<\/span>Johnson\u2019s crusade against Jim Crow<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Each of these dramatic hours in our national life has been\u00a0<\/span>shaped by the contest to lead the country to look forward rather than back, to assert hope over\u00a0<\/span>fear\u2014a struggle that continues even now. While the American story has not always\u2014or even\u00a0<\/span>often\u2014been heroic, we have been sustained by a belief in progress even in the gloomiest of\u00a0<\/span>times. In this inspiring book, Meacham reassures us, \u201cThe good news is that we have come\u00a0<\/span>through such darkness before\u201d\u2014as, time and again, Lincoln\u2019s better angels have found a way to\u00a0<\/span>prevail.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have been here before. In this timely and revealing book, The Soul of America, the\u00a0Pulitzer Prize-winning, #1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":46746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2239],"tags":[1072,12584,12596,12577,12585,7085,12582,12588,12595,12592,12580,12581,12594,12598,12587,12576,12597,12589,2258,12593,12591,12583,6133,12590,12586,12575,12578,1059,12579,5346],"class_list":["post-46737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","tag-abraham-lincoln","tag-alice-paul","tag-america-first","tag-american-politics","tag-carrie-chapman-catt","tag-civil-war","tag-dwight-eisenhower","tag-eleanor-roosevelt","tag-father-coughlin","tag-first-world-war","tag-franklin-d-roosevelt","tag-harry-s-truman","tag-huey-long","tag-jim-crow","tag-john-lewis","tag-jon-meacham","tag-joseph-mccarthy","tag-joseph-n-welch","tag-jr","tag-ku-klux-klan","tag-lost-cause","tag-lyndon-b-johnson","tag-martin-luther-king","tag-reconstruction","tag-rosa-parks","tag-the-soul-of-america","tag-theodore-roosevelt","tag-ulysses-s-grant","tag-woodrow-wilson","tag-world-war-ii"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Jon-Meacham-The-Soul-of-America.jpg?fit=750%2C429&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}