Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer. The author of the New York Times bestsellers Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Franklin and Winston, and Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, he is a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University, a contributing writer for The New York Times Book Review, and a fellow of the Society of American Historians. Meacham lives in Nashville and in Sewanee with his wife and children.
发表于2024-12-25
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图书标签: 英文原版 美国 思维 随笔 社会学 社会 历史 NONFICTION
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 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. In this inspiring book, Meacham reassures us, “The good news is that we have come through such darkness before”—as, time and again, Lincoln’s better angels have found a way to prevail.
细数了美国历史上的总统们在民权问题的十字路口一次次选择自我纠错,走向更平权的轨道的故事。作者的乐观让人读来很是宽慰人心,但还是疑虑这本身也取决于从哪个角度看问题。
评分被某金融界人士抓着陪读了本左派鸡汤,据他说因为里面有太多历史文件引用造成很多单词不懂, 可是难道不是读本联邦党人文集更好吗...无处吐槽
评分细数了美国历史上的总统们在民权问题的十字路口一次次选择自我纠错,走向更平权的轨道的故事。作者的乐观让人读来很是宽慰人心,但还是疑虑这本身也取决于从哪个角度看问题。
评分细数了美国历史上的总统们在民权问题的十字路口一次次选择自我纠错,走向更平权的轨道的故事。作者的乐观让人读来很是宽慰人心,但还是疑虑这本身也取决于从哪个角度看问题。
评分作为对美国历史的入门还是可以的 但是近代的描述就草草了之了
The Soul of America 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书