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DuttonEsq: In response to the morons who say gun control laws won’t stop the massacres, Jon meacham said - what if it did stop THIS ONE!!! There would be some 9 year olds going to school today.
GregSankey: My latest reading is THE SOUL OF AMERICA: The Battle for our Better Angels by Jon Meacham with a quote from Dwight Eisenhower “I’ll tell you what leadership is. It’s persuasion—and conciliation—and education—and patience. It’s long, slow, tough work.”
11thHour: Former President Trump kicks off his first campaign rally in Waco, Texas on Saturday. It falls on the 30th anniversary of the deadly Waco siege. Historian Jon Meacham talks about the power of place, especially as Trump amplifies calls for violence.
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11thHour: Former President Trump kicks off his first campaign rally in Waco, Texas on Saturday. It falls on the 30th anniversary of the deadly Waco siege. Historian Jon Meacham talks about the power of place, especially as Trump amplifies calls for violence.
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oldlife: cue (not Doris Kearns Goodwin or Jon Meacham) but Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh
"Without professional historians, history education will be left more and more in the hands of social media influencers, partisan hacks...unconcerned with ...a complex...understanding of the past"
ViraArmstrong: Jon Ellis Meacham (born May 20, 1969) is an American writer, reviewer, historian and presidential biographer who is serving as the current Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral since November 7, 2021.
RickBBurns: —John F. Kennedy in Jon Meacham. “His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope.” p. 145.
RickBBurns: What could be next?’ The dynamite had blown out the face of Jesus in one of the sixteenth Street Baptist Church’s stained-glass windows.”
—John Lewis in Jon Meacham. “His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope.” p. 145.
RickBBurns: As the African Americans gathered to try to register, county police and state troopers made mass arrests in and around the city. [John] Lewis was rounded up almost immediately.
—Jon Meacham. “His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope.” p. 152.
PastorDCSmith: On page 257 of 759 of Thomas Jefferson, by Jon Meacham
Harbor_Media_: The Hingham Historical Commission is pleased to announce the 2022 Virginia Tay Memorial Lecture Series event, which Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham will be airing tonight at 7 PM on Harbor Media's HD Channels, Comcast 1072, and Verizon 2131.
DavidDark: Jimmy Carter told Jon Meacham 45 wasn't legitimately elected. John Lewis shared this assessment & declined to attend the inauguration. Reality Winner disclosed the truth and was caged for four years. What's it gonna take?
Daily_Press: CNU professor Jonathan White's book, "A House Built by Slaves," won the 2023 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize.
He's sharing it with Jon Meacham, a renowned presidential historian.
lancewallnau: Jon Meacham illuminates Abraham Lincoln’s faith in “And There Was Light”
coal204: Jon Meacham is a certified idiot.
MSNBC: “Let’s be very clear here: The Republican party, in the grip of Trump, is not a functioning part of the constitutional order. It’s just not.” Historian Jon Meacham discusses Trump’s dangerous hold over the GOP.
PastorDCSmith: On page 249 of 759 of Thomas Jefferson, by Jon Meacham
TheRHancock19: This Jon B.
babylon_slim: Waco, Ruby Ridge & The Murrow Bldg. — only trompass & MAGA lack humanity & so —use these as a stage for paranoid propaganda. GOP enabling this means It’s not a part of a function Constitution. The Republican Party is dead. Jon Meacham said it perfectly.
Hadso1229: Jon Meacham believes the Republican Party is Not a functioning party today. As a revered historian, he is clearly worried about the state of our Nation!
ruralj: “The Republican Party, in the grip of Trump, is not a functional part of the constitutional order,” which requires 2 functioning parties.—Historian Jon Meacham, who says he has voted for candidates of both parties for president and down ballot. Many of us like him feel likewise.
R_Owl_Mirror: Trump rally falls on dark Waco anniversary
11thHour: Historian Jon Meacham talks about the paranoid style of American politics
rgtrendsetter: Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.
-Jon Meacham
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CultrHack: “I believe firmly that this generation will be judged by our success or our failure at standing up to a totalitarian impulse in the United States.”
--historian Jon Meacham, last night⬇️
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Hershovitz: “I believe firmly that this generation will be judged by our success or our failure at standing up to a totalitarian impulse in the United States,” says presidential historian Jon Meacham.
allinwithchris: “I believe firmly that this generation will be judged by our success or our failure at standing up to a totalitarian impulse in the United States,” says presidential historian Jon Meacham.
_AdamFitzgerald: Beyond Bin Laden- America And The Future Of Terror (James Baker III) (Jon Meacham - The World After Bin Laden)
DavidCa11355028: Book And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle PDF Download - Jon Meacham, Jon Meacham
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Morning_Joe: Mon. guest list: Jonathan Lemire, Rev. Al Sharpton, Chuck Rosenberg, Jackie Alemany, Jon Meacham, Charlie Sykes, Adm. James Stavridis, Richard Haass, George Conway, Vaughn Hillyard, Janis Mackey Frayer, Ian Bremmer, ctd...
PaulTay63195979: Jon Meacham, presidential historian, has given America the best advice to rid our nation of the traitors controlling the GOP..."Vote them out of every office." tRump supporters are a minority that only have power when they are in office making noise and undermining America.
drbcundiff: And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln & the American Struggle
MagisterHistor1: Reading Jon Meacham's Lincoln bio. Not a bad book. But the thinnest parts of the book are when he tries to explain away Lincoln's racist rhetoric. Rather than accepting it, Meacham often delves into unproven assertions to rationalize Lincoln's statements.
f3backup: Review of "The Gettysburg Address" from 1863, some things don't age well. Luckily in 2013, this was retracted. Picked this up from "And There was Light" by Jon Meacham
SR20Pilot: Better late than never! My review of Jon Meacham's latest treasure - "And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle"
RobinMacNab: Review of “And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle” by Jon Meacham
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SenWhitehouse: The plan would be “creating chaos and anarchy, out of which might come the establishment of the Confederacy as the government de facto in the very halls of the national Capitol.”
Excerpts from And There Was Light by Jon Meacham.
jrick: “Speechwriters are, first and foremost, ghostwriters. The final product is a work of collaboration that ultimately belongs to the speaker. If you want credit for the speech, run for office. Deliver it yourself.”
RickBBurns: “We say we are a believing nation, yet when we are wronged, the people demand revenge. If we truly believe, then what is the role of forgiveness, mercy, and compassion in public life?”
John Lewis in Jon Meacham. “His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope.” p. 12
RonaldGower2: The greatest President who ever lived. I'm reading a book on Lincoln by Jon Meacham. His wisdom far surpasses any other who has lived in the White House.
Painting Captures President Lincoln Assassination Aftermath
RickBBurns: John Lewis in Jon Meacham. “His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope.” pg. 14.
AngelaWalkr: Why congressman James Clyburn was the most important politician of 2020
Juan Williams, an author,analyst, calls James Clyburn politician of the year.
Jon Meacham, a presidential historian, says he was the most important person of 2020. “Without Jim Clyburn endorsing Joe Biden,
mbevere: "Just because we have the means to express opinions quickly does not mean we have opinions that are worth expressing quickly." - Jon Meacham
FatherTim: Is Jon Meacham the Episcopal Church's new Sam Waterston? (listening to him speak...)
AlbertMackey1: Jon Meacham on And There Was Light
King_Garrett: The Great Emancipator on the Author of the Declaration of Independence—from “And There Was Light” by Jon Meacham.
pellom_BB: Excited to get started on this behemoth today. Love Jon Meacham.
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f3backup: Just started "And There Was Light" by Jon Meacham. Interesting insights into Lincoln.
PastorDCSmith: On page 109 of 759 of Thomas Jefferson, by Jon Meacham
SocialPowerOne1: How Biden and historian Jon Meacham 'bonded' over 'threats to American democracy': report
jrick: Jon Meacham “has leaked more stories about his speechwriting involvement to Politico than he’s written actual speeches.”
nikkiana: 4 of 5 stars to Nashville by Jon Meacham
RonaldGower2: I'm reading "And There Was Light" by Jon Meacham. The book is a biography of Lincoln. I am amazed how history repeats. On page 214 Lincoln speaks about Democratics delaying or stopping the Electoral College vote and preventing his election. 1/6/2021.
SlateAsterisk: Made out of Popsicle Sticks
EliJFinkel: How had I been unaware of biographer James Parton, who deftly observed circa 1860 that "the political history of the United States, for the last thirty years, dates from the moment when the soft hand of Mr. Van Buren touched Mrs. Eaton's knocker"?
h/t Jon Meacham, AMERICAN LION
BlancheBetz: Scoop: Biden tried to hire Jon Meacham, his volunteer muse
ShannonBlosser: Today’s sermon on Matthew 5:4-5 was greatly aided by Jon Meacham’s work with John Lewis.
J_Scott_: “The ‘Men without pens’ dreaded by all real speechwriters…They offer all kinds of ideas…When the meeting ends, they say, ‘You got that? You good?’…& then they walk out with…a free night, while the speechwriter is left to actually write the thing.”
Slate: There’s an unwritten code presidential speechwriters follow. Jon Meacham brazenly ignores it.
Twheater2: There’s an unwritten code presidential speechwriters follow. Jon Meacham brazenly ignores it.
Slate: There’s an unwritten code presidential speechwriters follow. Jon Meacham brazenly ignores it.
SlateAsterisk: Vacillating Wildly From Dispiriting to Exhilarating
Eduflack: Scoop: Biden tried to hire Jon Meacham, his volunteer muse
w_trex99: Axios reports the ‘shared belief’ that has bonded Joe Biden and historian Jon Meacham
Slate: There’s an unwritten code presidential speechwriters follow. Jon Meacham brazenly ignores it.
PastorDCSmith: On page 91 of 759 of Thomas Jefferson, by Jon Meacham
yorkhistory: FLASH RAFFLE THIS WEEK: Order your Erik Larson tickets for our Distinguished Speaker Series event between March 4 and 10, and you'll be entered into a drawing for a Distinguished Speaker prize pack of 3 books: One by Larson and two by Jon Meacham.
reallyjohndavid: 12.5.22 Surrender An Evening with Bono in Conversation with Jon Meacham
Slate: There’s an unwritten code presidential speechwriters follow. Jon Meacham brazenly ignores it.
axios: As threats to American democracy rose, the theme became a Biden signature, with Meacham helping supply the rhetoric.
NatalieShutler: “Meacham has leaked more stories about his speechwriting involvement to Politico than he’s written actual speeches.”
TpmPeiser: Axios reports the ‘shared belief’ that has bonded Joe Biden and historian Jon Meacham
katie_rayford: “Meacham has leaked more stories about his speechwriting involvement to Politico than he’s written actual speeches.”
A professional speechwriter's very funny and good take on speechw--errr "man without a pen" Jon Meacham
Townsend442: Axios reports the ‘shared belief’ that has bonded Joe Biden and historian Jon Meacham –
RonaldGower2: Black female slaves were abused. This is one account on how they were treated. Reading Jon Meacham's book on Lincoln. This image is in the book.
c_cauterucci: felt so good to read this piece on Jon Meacham, who is hated by speechwriters and historians alike
seangraf: Scoop: Biden tried to hire Jon Meacham, his volunteer muse
Dhruvpolitics: In his new book, Jon Meacham offers a better understanding of Abraham Lincoln's principled statesmanship, and his commitment to “the principle of ‘Liberty to all.”
Heminator: "The two bonded over their shared belief that Biden is a historically consequential figure in the fight to preserve American democracy."
The "two" are John Meacham and... Joe Biden.
Slate: There’s an unwritten code presidential speechwriters follow. Jon Meacham brazenly ignores it.
realTuckFrumper: How Biden and historian Jon Meacham 'bonded' over 'threats to American democracy': report
jackshafer: The Jon Meachem Watch
FreyerChuck: Axios reports the ‘shared belief’ that has bonded Joe Biden and historian Jon Meacham
wexler: “Meacham seems to brazenly, almost reflexively, break the first rule of speechwriting: Don’t take credit. That’s the job. Speechwriters are, first and foremost, ghostwriters.”
NiemanLabFuego: Spare Me the Joe Biden-Jon Meacham Speechwriting Bromance!
rickshenkman: Biden tried to hire Jon Meacham, his volunteer muse
axios: Scoop: Biden tried to hire Jon Meacham, his volunteer muse
drogon_dracarys: Biden cares so much about democracy he’s about to snatch it away from DC residents
Biden has grown so close to his volunteer muse, Jon Meacham, that he tried to bring the presidential historian into the WH
Minizorg: Axios reports the 'shared belief' that has bonded Joe Biden and historian Jon Meacham
SaradaPeri: This might read as a critique of Jon Meacham. But it's really a love letter to my fellow speechwriters.
MorganHuseby: Not a speechwriter, but I am also rankled by Jon Meacham.
rickarchtx: Scoop: Biden tried to hire Jon Meacham, his volunteer muse
