For the Ages: A History Podcast
History
A president who governed a divided country has much to teach us in a twenty-first-century moment of polarization and political crisis. Hated and hailed, excoriated, and revered, Abraham Lincoln was at the pinnacle of American power when implacable secessionists gave no quarter in a clash of visions bound up with money, race, identity, and faith. Celebrated historian and writer Jon Meacham joins David M. Rubenstein in a conversation on the power of Lincoln’s story to illustrate the ways and means of politics in a democracy, the roots and durability of racism, and the capacity of conscience to shape events.
Recorded on December 9, 2022
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LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President
In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626–1863
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
How the Best Did It: Leadership Lessons from Our Top Presidents
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany’s March to Global War
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon, Part Two
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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, Part Two
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, Part One
John Quincy Adams: His Presidency and Final Years
John Quincy Adams: Early Life and the Road to the Presidency
Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty
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