Jon Meacham Interview: Our Worst Instincts & Our Better Angels
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Jon Meacham examines how fear emerges during times of anxiety, the causes and effects of McCarthyism, and the importance of empathy as a trait in our leaders and describes why he calls the Civil Rights Movement “the great domestic drama of the 20th century.”
Jon Meacham is a renowned presidential historian, contributing writer for The New York Times Book Review, contributing editor at TIME, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the Society of American Historians, Meacham is a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has written for The New York Times op-ed page, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, and Garden & Gun. Meacham is also a regular guest on “Morning Joe” and other broadcasts. Born in Chattanooga in 1969, Meacham graduated from The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, with a degree in English literature. He previously worked as a reporter for the Chattanooga Times, an editor-in-chief at Newsweek, and an executive editor at Random House. A trustee of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, The McCallie School, and The Harpeth Hall School, Meacham chairs the National Advisory Council of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University.
From the HBO / Kunhardt Film Foundation (KFF) Documentary “The Soul of America.” Based on Jon Meacham's bestseller that illuminates our present-day fraught political reality by exploring historical challenges including the women's suffrage movement, the incarceration of Japanese Americans, McCarthyism, and the fight for Civil Rights.
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Jon Meacham, Presidential Biographer and Historian
Interview Date: August 03, 2019
Interviewed by: Katie Davison
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Every American should watch this. And think.
@Blonde111
Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, many Americans don’t think… they follow without understanding
@BSU55
10 ай бұрын
74 million Americans don't give a F! They all intend to vote for Donald (the first potential Hitler in American history) Trump again, in November 2024.
I have read Meachams' book called The Soul of America. What he wrote about is what he is talking about in this series. He provides excellent perspective on how we as a people have progressed culturally, socially, and politically with some small step and some big steps. Thanks for the interview.
Excellent read.
Meacham speaks and writes so well, more Americans should read and listen. Too bad the MAGA crowd doesnt read or know any history
Where is this filmed, his library?
Meacham, Smerconish 2024.
Thus guy w/ airport & football field named after him Plus he once owned Cowboys or some football franchize??
@budgibson185
7 ай бұрын
No not at all
inspirational
I l9ve philosophy and thoughtful introspection but being and living in the moment we're in I am so pissed off!!
Ghw was a great man great charisma his vicious dukakis ads were purely republican.
What a wonderful rear vision view of good triumphing over evil but sadly those characters were all labouring under the delusion that there was a singularity a truth. We all know there are many truths now. Are you for russia or against it. Well rupert?
Donald j mccarthy ' Mr witchhunt " ...
Nice piece. Mr Meacham needs to rehang his pictures. You never hang a larger picture over a smaller picture. The reverse. Out of balance and looks terrible. .
@annaholloway2125
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Out of curiosity, on which piece of stone is this carved?
@marymorrison3128
Жыл бұрын
@@annaholloway2125 love your response
@sydneyparker9191
10 ай бұрын
Seriously. Who's rules? Funny
@nancymarkon831
7 ай бұрын
I've always liked that look, especially when it's balanced by some done the other way around. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
@budgibson185
7 ай бұрын
Lol a internet troll commenting on his Nashville mansion decor like it’s an apartment on campus is beautiful 😂🙄
Who is this guy?!!!!!! What does he thinks of himself?!! It’s totally ironic 😂😂😂
Weimar again ...
The pattern is like most movies with a twist. 1 , we open scene with an exciting assasination , James Bond style. 2 , then it goes to, TWO YEARS EARLIER. WE follow Oswald rabbit out of Russia with a girl . To heart of Texas. We follow to the safe house in Dallas . Later , It's Ozwald magician who shoots Kennedy. Later Oswald rabbit dies. Earlier Az shoots Kennedy. It wasn't Os , the gay smuggler. It wasn't Oz , the magical trajectories shooter. It was Az , one of media's troupes who shot him. Az film was a copy of Fran's and Sophie. JFK and Jackie copy Fran's like a reshooting of a assasination. The JFK reshooting of Fran's. Fran's did it first... Sophie was before Jackie .. Sophie was first to limo surf. Fyi... I own a limo... My wife has also stood on top of a limo and surfed... Long black Lincoln. It looks cool watching a girl surf a moving limo.. Tell you what... This spring , I will do a reshoot and post limo surfing..
@veritas6335
2 жыл бұрын
Your insanity is showing.