by Jon Meacham
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Woolley, John T., and Gerhard Peters. The American Presidency Project. University of California, Santa Barbara. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/index.php.
Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers
American Heritage
American Literature
American Quarterly
The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlantic Monthly
The Birmingham News
Business Week
Chicago Tribune
Civil War History
Coolidge Quarterly
Collier’s
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
The Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.)
The Economist
The Georgia Historical Quarterly
Good Housekeeping
Harper’s Magazine
Indiana Magazine of History
Journal of Negro History
The Journal of Southern History
Life
The Literary Digest
Los Angeles Times
MELUS
The Memphis Press-Scimitar
The Nation
Newsweek
The New York Times
New-York Tribune
The New Yorker
The Outlook
Political Science Quarterly
The Post and Courier (Charleston, S.C.)
Presidential Studies Quarterly
Prologue
Richmond (Va.) Enquirer
Smithsonian
Sociological Forum
Tennessee Historical Quarterly
Time
USA Today
Vanity Fair
The Washington Post
The Washington Times
The Wheeling (W.V.) Intelligencer
The William and Mary Quarterly
Woman’s Journal
Illustration List and Credits
1. President Franklin Roosevelt and wife, Eleanor, returning from his inauguration, January 20, 1941: FOTOSEARCH/GETTY IMAGES
2. President John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office of the White House on February 10, 1961: GEORGE TAMES/THE NEW YORK TIMES/REDUX
3. Rosa Parks sitting on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, 1956: UNIVERSAL HISTORY ARCHIVE/UIG/BRIDGEMAN IMAGES
4. Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull, 1818: NIDAY PICTURE LIBRARY/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO
5. Iwo Jima Flag Raising—U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945: JOE ROSENTHAL/ASSOCIATED PRESS
6. Abraham Lincoln by Mathew Brady: NATIONAL ARCHIVES/MATHEW BRADY COLLECTION/PHOTO NUMBER 111-B-3656
7. Frederick Douglass appealing to President Lincoln and his cabinet to enlist Negroes, mural by William Edouard Scott, at the Recorder of Deeds building, built in 1943,Washington, D.C.: PHOTOGRAPH BY CAROL M. HIGHSMITH/BUYENLARGE/GETTY IMAGES
8. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, c. 1885: © CORBIS/GETTY IMAGES
9. Sojourner Truth: AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER/19TH CENTURY/PRIVATE COLLECTION/PETER NEWARK AMERICAN PICTURES/BRIDGEMAN IMAGES
10. President Franklin Roosevelt and Representative Lyndon B. Johnson, Galveston, Texas, May 1937: ASSOCIATED PRESS
11. Surrender at Appomattox by Tom Lovell, 1964/1965: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO
12. Commemorative print of Abraham Lincoln with text of the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, published 1865: EVERETT COLLECTION
13. Portrait of Ulysses S. Grant by Thalstrup, 1865: PRIVATE COLLECTION/BRIDGEMAN IMAGES
14. The Fifteenth Amendment celebrated May 19, 1870, from an original design by James C. Beard: UNIVERSAL HISTORY ARCHIVE/UIG/GETTY IMAGES
15. President Theodore Roosevelt, c.1903: FOTOSEARCH/GETTY IMAGES
16. Israel Zangwill, author of The Melting Pot, c. 1905: EVERETT COLLECTION
17. (top) Bandits’ Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street by Jacob August Riis, 1888: © AKG-IMAGES/THE IMAGE WORKS
18. (bottom) Lodgers in Bayard Street Tenement, Five Cents a Spot by Jacob August Riis, 1889: EVERETT COLLECTION
19. Commemorative print of Booker T. Washington dining with President Theodore Roosevelt, October, 1901: EVERETT COLLECTION
20. Booker T. Washington lectures at Carnegie Hall, 1906: ARCHIVE PL/ALAMY STOCK PHOTO
21. Jane Addams, co-founded Hull-House in Chicago in 1889: EVERETT COLLECTION
22. Women’s suffrage parade, 1916: BETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES
23. Alice Paul, 1920: MARY EVANS PICTURE LIBRARY/EVERETT COLLECTION
24. William Monroe Trotter: THE HARVARD COLLEGE CLASS OF 1895 CLASS ALBUM/HUD 295.04 F (V.2)/HARVARD UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES
25. Poster for the film The Birth of a Nation, 1915: EVERETT COLLECTION
26. Wall Street Bombing, September 16, 1920: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/PRINTS & PHOTOGRAPHS DIVISION/GEORGE GRANTHAM BAIN COLLECTION/LC-DIG-GGBAIN-31205
27. Woodrow Wilson with A. Mitchell Palmer, 1910s: EVERETT COLLECTION
28. Ku Klux Klan members hold a march in Washington, DC, August 9, 1925: BETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES
29. Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, c. 1920: EVERETT COLLECTION
30. Navy CPO Graham Jackson plays “Goin’ Home” as President Franklin Roosevelt’s body is carried from the Warm Springs Foundation, Warm Springs, Georgia, April, 1945: ED CLARK/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGES
31. (top) Senator Huey Long at the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, June 1932: ASSOCIATED PRESS
32. (bottom) Reverend Charles E. Coughlin addressing his followers in Cleveland, May 1936: ASSOCIATED PRESS
33. Winston Churchill greeting President Franklin Roosevelt at the Second Quebec Conference, September 1944: CSU ARCHIVES/EVERETT COLLECTION
34. (left) Marian Anderson receiving the Spingarn Medal Award from Eleanor Roosevelt, Richmond, Virginia, July 1939: KEYSTONE-FRANCE/GAMMA-KEYSTONE/GETTY IMAGES
35. (right) Pin-back button for N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund anti-lynching campaign, 1940s: COLLECTION OF THE SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE/GIFT FROM DAWN SIMON SPEARS AND ALVIN SPEARS, SR./2011.159.3.12
36. New Yorker cartoon, June 3, 1933, For Gosh Sakes: ROBERT J. DAY/FOR GOSH SAKES/©CONDÉ NAST
37. Japanese American children waving from a train leaving Seattle for an internment camp for the duration of World War II, March 1942: EVERETT COLLECTION
38. Senator Joseph McCarthy and chief Army legal counsel Joseph N. Welch during the Army-McCarthy hearings, Washington, D.C., May 1954: ROBERT PHILLIPS/THE LIFE PICTURE COLLECTION/GETTY IMAGES
39. World War II veterans poster, c. 1945: GRANGER, NYC
40. President Harry Truman holds a press conference at his Florida vacation retreat, Key West, Florida, March 30, 1950: BETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES
41. General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Senator Richard Nixon, 1952, Republican nominees for president and vice president, Chicago, July 1952: ASSOCIATED PRESS
42. Senator Margaret Chase Smith: BETTMANN/GETTY IMAGES
43. Edward R. Murrow, the host of CBS show See It Now: JOHN SPRINGER COLLECTION/CORBIS/GETTY IMAGES
44. Roy Cohn and Senator Joseph McCarthy during Senate committee hearing, 1950s: BRIDGEMAN IMAGES
> 45. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at the White House, December 1963: OKAMOTO/PHOTOQUEST/GETTY IMAGES
46. State troopers swing billy clubs to break up the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March in Selma, Alabama, March 7, 1965. John Lewis is being beaten by a state trooper.: ASSOCIATED PRESS
47. (top) Alabama governor George Wallace confronting National Guard brigadier general Henry Graham to block integration at the University of Alabama, June 11, 1963: ASSOCIATED PRESS
48. (bottom) Alabama governor George Wallace speaks at the Glen Burnie National Guard Armory, Maryland, October 19, 1964: ASSOCIATED PRESS
49. Roadside Welcome to Historic Alabama sign, Selma, Alabama, July 1964: © 1976 MATT HERRON/TAKE STOCK/THE IMAGE WORKS
50. President Lyndon B. Johnson greets summer interns working in government jobs in Washington, August 1965: CSU ARCHIVES/EVERETT COLLECTION
51. Martin Luther King, Jr., speaking in church during the Montgomery bus boycott: PHOTO BY DAN WEINER, COPYRIGHT JOHN BRODERICK
52. President Harry S. Truman speaks from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the 38th annual conference of the NAACP, June 29, 1947: EVERETT COLLECTION
53. President John F. Kennedy confers with his brother Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, October 1962: ASSOCIATED PRESS
BY JON MEACHAM
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: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship
Voices in Our Blood: America’s Best on the Civil Rights Movement (editor)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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, and Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, he is a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University, a contributing writer for The New York Times Book Review, and a fellow of the Society of American Historians. Meacham lives in Nashville with his wife and children.
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