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Jon Meacham
(3,909)
Summary: A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Abraham Lincoln was president when implacable secessionists gave...
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Call #: B LINCOLN
Location: Adult Biographies
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Jon Meacham
(1,674)
Summary: Jon Meacham explores the seven last sayings of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels, combining rich historical and theological insights to reflect on the true heart of the Christian story. For Jon...
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Call #: 232.96 MEA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Jon Meacham
(5,504)
Summary: John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep...
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Call #: B LEWIS
Location: Adult Biographies
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Thomas Jefferson
(175)
Summary: Thomas Jefferson believed in the covenant between a government and its citizens, in both the government's responsibilities to its people and also the people's responsibility to the republic. In this...
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Call #: 323.6 JEF
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Jon Meacham
(13,857)
Summary: Our current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in this book, Meacham shows us how what Lincoln called "the better angels of our nature" have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising...
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Call #: 973 MEA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Jon Meacham
(1,445)
Summary: From "The Star-Spangled Banner" to "Born in the U.S.A.," Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw take readers on a journey through eras in American history and the songs and performers that inspired us. Meacham...
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Call #: 782.42 MEA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
Jon Meacham
(13,924)
Summary: The current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America, Meacham shows us how what Lincoln called the "better angels of our nature" have won the day. Painting surprising portraits...
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Call #: 973 MEA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Jon Meacham (read by Jon Meacham)
(13,878)
Summary: The current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America, Meacham shows us how what Lincoln called the "better angels of our nature" have won the day. Painting surprising portraits...
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Call #: CD BOOK 973 MEA
Location: Adult CD Books Nonfiction
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by
Jon Meacham
(7,758)
Summary: "In this brilliant biography, Jon Meacham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, chronicles the life of George Herbert Walker Bush. Drawing on President Bush's personal diaries, on the diaries of his...
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Call #: B BUSH
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Jon Meacham
(38,406)
Summary: "Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power" gives readers Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians...
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Call #: B JEFFERSON
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Jon Meacham
(51,591)
Summary: A thought-provoking study of Andrew Jackson chronicles the life and career of a self-made man who went on to become a military hero and seventh president of the United States, critically analyzing...
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Call #: 973.56 MEA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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