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Film, Video Jon Meacham: 2018 National Book Festival

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Title

  • Jon Meacham: 2018 National Book Festival

Summary

  • Jon Meacham discusses "The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels" at the 2018 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

Event Date

  • September 01, 2018

Notes

  • -  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 the New York Times best–sellers "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." His new book is "The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels" (Random House). Meacham lives in Nashville.

Running Time

  • 1 hours 40 seconds

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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