Jon Meacham
Forfatter af American Lion
Om forfatteren
Jon Meacham was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on May 20, 1969. He received a degree in English literature at the University of the South. He joined Newsweek as a writer in 1995. Three years later, at the age of 29, he was promoted to managing editor, supervising coverage of politics, international vis mere affairs, and breaking news. In 2006, he was promoted to editor at Newsweek. He is currently an executive editor at Random House. He won the Pulitzer Prize for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House in 2009. His other works include Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship, American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation. In 2001, he edited Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement. In 2013 his title Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power made The New York Times Best Seller List. In 2015 Meacham's title Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush made The New York Times Best Seller List. His most recent book is entitled The Soul of America: The Battle for our Better Angels (2018). vis mindre
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Værker af Jon Meacham
In the Hands of the People: Thomas Jefferson on Equality, Faith, Freedom, Compromise, and the Art of Citizenship (2020) 40 eksemplarer
American Homer: Reflections on Shelby Foote and his classic "The Civil War: a narrative" 5 eksemplarer
Songs of America (Adapted for Young Readers): Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation (2023) 4 eksemplarer
The Mueller Report: The Findings of the Office of the Special Counsel on Russian Interference in the 2016 Election (2019) 2 eksemplarer
Dirty Martini 1 eksemplar
Thomas Jefferson l'Art du Pouvoir 1 eksemplar
Geo. H. W. Bush 1 eksemplar
How Jesus Became Christ 1 eksemplar
The Birth of Jesus 1 eksemplar
Andrew Jackson An American Populist 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Courage Is Contagious and Other Reasons to Be Grateful for Michelle Obama (2017) — Bidragyder — 38 eksemplarer
Sermons from the National Cathedral soundings for the journey (2013) — Forord, nogle udgaver — 8 eksemplarer
Satte nøgleord på
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- Fødselsdato
- 1969-05-20
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
- Bopæl
- Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
Sewanee, Tennessee, USA
New York, New York, USA - Uddannelse
- University of the South (BA, English)
- Erhverv
- journalist
editor - Organisationer
- Council on Foreign Relations
Vanderbilt University
Red Ribbon Society, University of the South
Chattanooga Times
The Washington Monthly
Newsweek (vis alle 8)
PBS
Random House
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(Available in Print: COPYRIGHT: 5/8/2018; PUBLISHER: Random House; 1st edition; ISBN: 978-0399589812; PAGES: 416; Unabridged.)
(Digital: Yes)
*Audiobook: COPYRIGHT: 5/10/2018; PUBLISHER: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group; ISBN: 978-0525640066; DURATION: 11:01:34; Unabridged
(Film or tv: No.)
SERIES:
No
MAJOR CHARACTERS:
N/A
SUMMARY/ EVALUATION:
How I picked it: It was either a news show that recommended it, or an article I read.
What it’s about: Meachum discusses politics and the office of the US President, touching on historical events and the efforts, of politicians to enact legislation for or counter to the promise of the constitutional promise of liberty and justice for all citizens. He points out that leaders reflect the will and collective soul of those they lead, and that for the many steps backward, the trend is ever, on the whole---over time, forward and upward.
What I thought: Nicely researched and written. Inspiring.
AUTHOR:
Jon Meachum (5/20/1969):
From Amazon: “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 with his wife and children.”
NARRATOR:
Fred Sanders
From Penguin Random House:
“Fred Sanders has been seen on Broadway (The Buddy Holly Story), in national tours (Driving Miss Daisy and Big River), and on TV, including Seinfeld, The West Wing, Will and Grace, Numb3rs, Titus, and Malcolm in the Middle. His films include Sea of Love, The Shadow, and the Oscar-nominated short Culture. A native New Yorker and Yale graduate, he now lives in LA.”
I feel that typically most authors DO need to let professional actors narrate their works, but I don’t find any flaws in the author’s Intro or conclusion. Never the less, Fred Sanders does a marvelous narration here.
GENRE:
Non-fiction; Biography; US History;
LOCATIONS:
United States
TIME FRAME:
Contemporary (2018)
SUBJECTS:
Politics; Civil Rights; Presidency
SAMPLE QUOTATION:
From the Introduction – To Hope Rather Than To Fear
"There is a rich history of discussion of what the Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal, writing in 1944, called the American Creed: devotion to principles of liberty, of self-government, and of equal opportunity for all regardless of race, gender, religion, or nation of origin. Echoing Myrdal, the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., wrote, “The genius of America lies in its capacity to forge a single nation from peoples of remarkably diverse racial, religious, and ethnic origins….The American Creed envisages a nation composed of individuals making their own choices and accountable to themselves, not a nation based on inviolable ethnic communities….It is what all Americans should learn, because it is what binds all Americans together.”
I have chosen to consider the American soul more than the American Creed because there is a significant difference between professing adherence to a set of beliefs and acting upon them. The war between the ideal and the real, between what’s right and what’s convenient, between the larger good and personal interest is the contest that unfolds in the soul of every American. The creed of which Myrdal and Schlesinger and others have long spoken can find concrete expression only once individuals in the arena choose to side with the angels. That is a decision that must come from the soul—and sometimes the soul’s darker forces win out over its nobler ones. The message of Martin Luther King, Jr.—that we should be judged on the content of our character, not on the color of our skin—dwells in the American soul; so does the menace of the Ku Klux Klan. History hangs precariously in the balance between such extremes. Our fate is contingent upon which element—that of hope or that of fear—emerges triumphant.
Philosophically speaking, the soul is the vital center, the core, the heart, the essence of life. Heroes and martyrs have such a vital center; so do killers and haters. Socrates believed the soul was nothing less than the animating force of reality. “What is it that, present in a body, makes it living?” he asked in the Phaedo. The answer was brief, and epochal: “A soul.” In the second chapter of the book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible, the soul was life itself: “And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” In the Greek New Testament, when Jesus says “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends,” the word for “life” could also be translated as “soul.””
RATING:
5 stars.
STARTED READING – FINISHED READING
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