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by Jon Meacham


  Wallace, Jerry L. “The Ku Klux Klan in Calvin Coolidge’s America.” Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation, July 14, 2014. https://coolidgefoundation.org/​blog/​the-ku-klux-klan-in-calvin-coolidges-america/.

  Wills, Matthew. “A Really Contested Convention: The 1924 Democratic Klanbake.” JSTOR Daily, May 11, 2016. https://daily.jstor.org/​contested-convention/.

  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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