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Introduction : to hope rather than to fear -- The confidence of the whole people : visions of the presidency, the ideas of progress and prosperity, and We, the people -- The long shadow of Appomattox : the lost cause, the Ku Klux Klan, and Reconstruction -- With soul of flame and temper of steel : The melting pot, TR and his bully pulpit, and the progressive promise -- A new and good thing in the world : the triumph of womens suffrage, the Red scare, and a new Klan -- The crisis of the old order : the Great Depression, Huey Long, the New Deal, and America First -- Have you no sense of decency? : Making everyone middle class, the GI Bill, McCarthyism, and modern media -- What the hell is the Presidency for? : Segregation forever, Kings crusade, and LBJ in the crucible -- The first duty of an American citizen.;Our 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 repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln, and other presidents, including Theodore Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, 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 rights pioneers Rosa Parks and John Lewis, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Army-McCarthy hearings lawyer Joseph N. Welch, Meacham brings vividly to life turning points in American history. He writes about the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the birth of the Lost Cause; the backlash against immigrants in the First World War and the resurgence of the Klu Klux Klan in the 1920s; the fight for womens rights; the demagoguery of Huey Long and Father Coughlin and the isolationist work of America First in the years before World War II; the anti-Communist witch-hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy; and Lyndon Johnsons crusade against Jim Crow. Each of these dramatic, crucial turning points, the battle to lead the country to look forward rather than back, to assert hope over fear, was joined, even as it is today. While the American story has not always--or even often--been heroic, and the outcome of that battle has never been certain, in this inspiring book, Meacham reassures us, The good news is that we have come through such darkness before, as, time and again, Lincolns better angels have found a way to prevail--

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Copyright 2018 by Merewether LLC

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

R ANDOM H OUSE and the H OUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following to reprint previously published material:

T HE H EIRS TO THE E STATE OF M ARTIN L UTHER K ING, J R., C/O W RITERS H OUSE, LLC : Excerpts from I Have a Dream (August 29, 1963), copyright 1963 by Martin Luther King, Jr., and copyright renewed 1991 by Coretta Scott King. Reprinted with the permission of The Heirs to the Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., c/o Writers House LLC as agent for the proprietor, New York, NY.

G RAND C ENTRAL P UBLISHING AND B ARRY N . M ALZBERG: Excerpts from Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman, edited by Margaret Truman, copyright 1989 by Margaret Truman. Reprinted by permission of Grand Central Publishing and Barry N. Malzberg.

K NOPF, AN IMPRINT OF THE K NOPF D OUBLEDAY P UBLISHING G ROUP, A DIVISION OF P ENGUIN R ANDOM H OUSE LLC : Excerpts from The Paranoid Style in American Politics, copyright 1952, 1964, 1965 by Richard Hofstadter. Used by permission of Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

T HE P ERMISSIONS C OMPANY, I NC., ON BEHALF OF THE D AVID G RAHAM D U B OIS T RUST: Excerpts from Black Reconstruction in America, 18601880 by W.E.B. Du Bois, copyright 1935 by W.E.B. Du Bois. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of the David Graham Du Bois Trust.

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TITLE PAGE: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, pictured here in 1941 at the presidents third inauguration, presided over the country from March 1933, in the depths of the Great Depression, until FDRs death in April 1945, on the verge of victory in World War II.

Book design by Simon M. Sullivan, adapted for ebook

Cover design: Tom McKeveny

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History, as nearly no one seems to know, is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.

J AMES B ALDWIN

The Presidency is not merely an administrative office. Thats the least of it. It is more than an engineering job, efficient or inefficient. It is pre-eminently a place of moral leadership.

F RANKLIN D . R OOSEVELT

Nothing makes a man come to grips more directly with his conscience than the Presidency.The burden of his responsibility literally opens up his soul. No longer can he accept matters as given; no longer can he write off hopes and needs as impossible.

L YNDON B . J OHNSON

For only the President represents the national interest JFK said Upon him - photo 3

For only the President represents the national interest, JFK said. Upon him alone converge all the needs and aspirations of all parts of the countryall nations of the world.

INTRODUCTION
TO HOPE RATHER THAN TO FEAR
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Back of the writhing, yelling, cruel-eyed demons who break, destroy, maim and lynch and burn at the stake, is a knot, large or small, of normal human beings, and these human beings at heart are desperately afraid of something. Of what? Of many things, but usually of losing their jobs, being declassed, degraded, or actually disgraced; of losing their hopes, their savings, their plans for their children; of the actual pangs of hunger, of dirt, of crime.

W . E . B . D U B OIS , Black Reconstruction in America, 1935

We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

A BRAHAM L INCOLN , First Inaugural Address, 1861

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T HE FATE OF A MERICA or at least of white America, which was the only America that seemed to countwas at stake. On the autumn evening of Thursday, October 7, 1948, South Carolina governor Strom Thurmond, the segregationist Dixiecrat candidate for president of the United States, addressed a crowd of one thousand inside the University of Virginias Cabell Hall in Charlottesville. The subject at hand: President Harry S. Trumans civil rights program, one that included anti-lynching legislation and protections against racial discrimination in hiring.

Thurmond was having none of it. Such measures, he thundered, would undermine the American way of life and outrage the Bill of Rights. Interrupted by applause and standing ovations, Thurmond, who had bolted the Democratic National Convention in July to form the States Rights Democratic Party, was in his element in the Old Confederacy. I want to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, Thurmond had said in accepting the breakaway partys nomination in Birmingham, Alabama, that theres not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, into our churches.

The message was clear. He and his fellow Dixiecrats, he told the University of Virginia crowd, offered the only genuine obstacle to the rise of socialism or communism in America. Civil rights, Thurmond declared, were a Red plot against the Free World: Only the States Rights Democratsand we alonehave the moral courage to stand up to the Communists and tell them this foreign doctrine will not work in free America.

Nearly seventy years on, in the heat of a Virginia August in 2017, heirs to the Dixiecrats platform of white supremacytwenty-first century Klansmen and neo-Nazis among themgathered in Charlottesville, not far from where Thurmond had taken his stand. The story is depressingly well known: A young counter-protestor, Heather Heyer, was killed. Two Virginia state troopers died in a helicopter crash as part of an operation to maintain order. And the president of the United Stateshimself an heir to the white populist tradition of Thurmond and of Alabamas George Wallacesaid that there had been an egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, as if there were more than one side to a conflict between neo-Nazis who idolized Adolf Hitler and Americans who stood against Ku Klux Klansmen and white nationalists. The remarks were of a piece with the incumbent presidents divisive language on immigration (among many other subjects, from political foes to women) and his nationalist rhetoric.

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