New York Times Best Selling Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Jon Meacham

Today on The Neil Haley Show, The Total Tutor Neil Haley will interview New York Times Best Selling Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Jon Meacham.

JON MEACHAM is a Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian. A contributing writer for The New York Times Book Review and a contributing editor of Time magazine, he is the author of theNew York Times bestsellers Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, American Gospel, and Franklin and Winston. Meacham lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

THE SOUL OF AMERICA

The Battle for Our Better Angels
by Jon Meacham, #1 New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize

“The battle between the ideal and the real, between what’s right and what’s convenient, between the larger good and personal interest is the contest that unfolds in the soul of every American. The creed of which Myrdal and Schlesinger and others have long spoken can only find concrete expression once individuals in the arena choose to side with the angels. That is a decision that must come from the soul—and sometimes the soul’s darker forces win out over its nobler ones. The message of Martin Luther King, Jr.—that we should be judged on the content of their character, not on the color of our skin—dwells in the American soul; so does the menace of the Ku Klux Klan. History hangs precariously in the balance between such extremes. Our fate is contingent on which element—that of hope or that of fear—emerges triumphant.”–Jon Meacham