Cannonball Read 18

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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels by Jon Meacham

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I don’t remember why I read this book. I was reading American Lion by Meacham and enjoying it so I added it to the queue without knowing much about it. The book uses American historical examples to show that the time in which we live now, as awful as it sometimes seems, is nothing new to America and we’ve always endured and become better for it. That is not to say that we have fixed all of the wrongs and injustices but we have gradually […]

Pivotal but not admirable

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham

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I’ve read a lot about how awful Andrew Jackson was, especially the last four years. Jackson owned slaves and believed unequivocally in the “supreme race”. His racism almost certainly fueled his desire to remove Native Americans from their homes and force them away from white settlements. This book won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for what author Jon Meacham’s hometown newspaper, the Chattanooga Times Free Press call “an unflinching portrait of a not always admirable democrat but a pivotal president, written with an agile prose […]



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