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"Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. 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 presidents including, besides...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 613 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Chronicles the epic clash between General Oliver Otis Howard, who took on a mission in the Pacific Northwest to force Native Americans onto reservations, and the Nez Perc�e leader Chief Joseph, who refused to leave his ancestral land.