The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better AngelsOur current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America John 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

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The loss of America was a stunning and unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire

Andrea Wulf reveals for the first time this aspect of the revolutionary generation

Habit: Flower stalks grow to 3-5 feet high

native North American flowering tree

this amazing portrait of the times reveals the mores and attitudes toward slavery of the nineteenth century

In 1802 the French naturalist

but also light enough to hang off a mini or smaller tree

Gallica roses are among the most ancient

Chinese blue and white porcelain was in demand in this country well into the nineteenth century and has become a part of the heritage of many American families

the gold and enamel ring bearing this phrase (I love and I hope) was given to Martha Jefferson by the British ambassador to France-the uncle of two of Martha's close friends at the convent school she attended near Paris

Dolen Perkins-Valdez