The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels Audiobook (Free)

#1 NEW YORK Occasions BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham assists us understand today’s minute in American politics and existence by looking back again at critical situations in our history when hope overcame department and fear.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Christian Research Monitor • Southern Living

Our current environment of partisan fury is not fresh, and in The Spirit of America Meacham displays us how what Abraham Lincoln known as the “better angels of our nature” have got about The Soul of America: The Fight for Our Better Angels repeatedly won your day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and 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 influential citizen activists as Martin Luther King, Jr., early suffragettes Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt, civil privileges pioneers Rosa Parks and John Lewis, First Woman Eleanor Roosevelt, and Army-McCarthy hearings attorney Joseph N. Welch, Meacham brings vividly to life turning points in American background. He writes about the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the birth of the Shed Trigger; the backlash against immigrants in the First World War and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s; the battle for women’s privileges; the demagoguery of Huey Very long and Father Coughlin as well as the isolationist work of America First in the years before Globe 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 inside our national life have been shaped from the contest to lead the united states to look forward rather than back again, to assert hope over fear-a struggle that proceeds nonetheless.

As the American tale hasn’t always-or even often-been heroic, we have been sustained by a belief happening actually in the gloomiest of times. In this motivating book, Meacham reassures us, “The good news is that we attended through such darkness before”-as, over and over, Lincoln’s better angels possess found a way to prevail.

Compliment for The Soul of America

“Brilliant, fascinating, timely . With engaging narratives of past eras of strife and disenchantment, Meacham presents wisdom for our own time.”-Walter Isaacson

“Gripping and inspiring, The Spirit of America is definitely Jon Meacham’s declaration of his faith in America.”-Newsday

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