Bostonia: v. 62, no. 2, 5-6

Founded in 1900, Bostonia magazine is Boston University's main alumni publication, which covers alumni and student life, as well as university activities, events, and programs

Bostonia: v. 61, no. 1-2, 4

Founded in 1900, Bostonia magazine is Boston University's main alumni publication, which covers alumni and student life, as well as university activities, events, and programs

Jon Meacham: Franklin and Winston: Leadership Lessons for Today

Newsweek editor Jon Meacham is the best-selling author of Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Look at an Epic Friendship, which Time magazine declared masterful and The Washington Post proclaimed a memorable achievement. In the book, Meacham explores the fascinating relationship between the two great leaders who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. The powerful emotional connection between Roosevelt and Churchill and how they confronted tyranny and terror is an incredibly contemporary story that yields important lessons for leaders today on a personal, political and diplomatic level, says Meacham. I don\u27t think you can understand the art of leadership or the way we live now without grasping the nature of the Roosevelt-Churchill friendship. His latest book, American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation, is a New York Times bestseller. In these polarized times, wrote USA Today, Meacham\u27s book provides an enlightening look at how the founding fathers discovered ways to tame, but not extinguish, the fires of faith. As managing editor, Meacham oversees Newsweek\u27s coverage of politics, international affairs and breaking news. He has written cover stories on the controversy over Mel Gibson\u27s The Passion, guns in America, the sexual abuse scandals of the Roman Catholic Church and modern depictions of World War II in Hollywood movies. His cover story on Ronald Reagan, American Dreamer, was a sweeping and intimate tribute to one of the most popular yet controversial presidents. Meacham is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Global Leader for Tomorrow of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In 2004 he was named one of the most powerful men under 38 by Details magazine. A contributing editor for The Washington Monthly, he also has written for The New York Times Book Review and The Los Angeles Times Book Review. In 2001 he edited Voices in Our Blood: America\u27s Best on the Civil Rights Movement. Born and raised in Chattanooga, Tenn., Meacham was imbued at a young age with a deep appreciation for history and current affairs. After graduating summa cum laude from The University of the South, he worked as a reporter for The Chattanooga Times. He soon became an editor of The Washington Monthly and, two years later, a national affairs writer for Newsweek. In 2004, under Meacham\u27s guidance, Newsweek won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence for the second time in three years

The soul of America: the battle for our better angels

The Soul of America Meacham shows us how what Abraham Lincoln called the ?better angels of our nature? have repeatedly won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Lincoln and other presidents, including Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson, and illuminating the courage of such influential citizen activists as Martin Luther King, Jr., early suffragettes Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt, civil rights pioneers Rosa Parks and John Lewis, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Army-McCarthy hearings lawyer Joseph N. Welch, Meacham brings vividly to life turning points in American history. He writes about the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the birth of the Lost Cause; the backlash against immigrants in the First World War and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s; the fight for women?s rights; the demagoguery of Huey Long and Father Coughlin and the isolationist work of America First in the years before World War II; the anti-Communist witch-hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy; and Lyndon Johnson?s crusade against Jim Crow. Each of these dramatic hours in our national life have been shaped by the contest to lead the country to look forward rather than back, to assert hope over fear?a struggle that continues even now

Franklin and winston : an intimate portrait of an epic friendship/ Meacham

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Jon Meacham

Jon Meacham, a prize-winning historian and 2017 commencement speaker at Ole Miss engages in a discussion about American politics with Andrew Lack, chairman of NBC News and MSNBC, in a special public program at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics

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