In the Hands of the People

Jon Meacham, Annette Gordon-Reed

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Random House Inc
25 September 2020

Politics & government

An inspiring manual on how to be a good citizen today, from Thomas Jefferson and others. Edited and with an introduction and essays by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and with an afterword by Pulitzer Prize winner Annette Gordon-Reed.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham offers a collection of inspiring words about how to be a good citizen, from Thomas Jefferson and others, and reminds us why our country's founding principles are still so important today.

Thomas Jefferson believed in the covenant between a government and its citizens, in both the government's responsibilities to its people and also the people's responsibility to the republic. In this illuminating book, a project of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, the #1 New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham presents selections from Jefferson's writing on the subject, with an afterword by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed and comments on Jefferson's ideas from others, including Colin Powell, Madeleine Albright, Frederick Douglass, Carl Sagan, and American presidents.

This curated collection revitalizes how to see an individual's role in the world, as it explores such Jeffersonian concepts as religious freedom, the importance of a free press, public education, participation in government, and others.

Meacham writes, ""In an hour of twenty-first-century division and partisanship, of declining trust in institutions and of widespread skepticism about the long-term viability of the American experiment, it is instructive to return to first principles. Not, to be sure, as an exercise in nostalgia or as a flight from the reality of our own time, but as an honest effort to see, as Jefferson wrote, what history may be able to tell us about the present and the future.""

By: Jon Meacham, Annette Gordon-Reed
Imprint: Random House Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 191mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9780593229316
ISBN 10: 0593229312
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 25 September 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. The author of the New York Times bestsellers Thomas Jefferson- The Art of Power, American Lion- Andrew Jackson in the White House, Franklin and Winston, Destiny and Power- The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, and The Soul of America, Meacham holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair in the American Presidency. He is a contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, a contributing editor to Time, and a fellow of the Society of American Historians.

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In the Hands of the People

Jon Meacham, Annette Gordon-Reed

$49.99

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