Jon Meacham has written some fine biographies of Americans, including one on Andrew Jackson that won a Pulitzer Prize. Now it's not a person Meacham is examining, but a whole country.
That's the gist of his latest work, . In the book, Meacham points out several times in American history when we were at each other's throats, figuratively if not actually, and managed to come through.
The key: finding and accentuating those better angels. The author joins us for an exploration of our shared story.
