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, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of
George Herbert Walker Bush, and The Soul of America, Meacham holds
the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair in the American
Presidency and is a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt
University. He is a contributing writer to The New York Times Book
Review, a contributing editor to Time, and a fellow of the Society
of American Historians.
Tim McGraw is a Grammy Award–winning entertainer, author,
and actor who has sold more than fifty million records worldwide
and dominated the charts with forty-three number one singles. He is
the most played country artist since his debut in 1992, has two New
York Times bestselling books to his credit, and has acted in such
movies as Friday Night Lights and The Blind Side. McGraw is
considered one of the most successful touring acts in the history
of country music. His last solo project spawned one of the biggest
hit singles of all time, “Humble and Kind,” whose message continues
to impact fans around the world.
“From hymns that swelled the hearts of revolutionaries to the
spirituals that stirred citizens to spill blood for a more perfect
Union and the blues- and country-infused beats that aroused change
in the 1960s, Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw form an irresistible
duo—connecting us to music as an unsung force in our nation's
history. Songs of America is not just a cultural journey—it strikes
our deepest chords as Americans: patriotism, protest, possibility,
creativity, and, at the root of it all, freedom of expression
enshrined in our founding document.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin
“The civil rights movement couldn’t have happened without its
music, and Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw have written a wonderful and
moving account of how the sounds of America helped lead us toward
what Dr. King called ‘the Beloved Community.’ This book brings it
all back for me—the struggles and the triumphs, the tough days and
the transcendent ones.”—John Lewis
“From the songs of the enslaved to the sounds of the civil rights
movement, from ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ to Springsteen's ‘The
Rising’ after 9/11, Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw have convened a
concert in Songs of America. It is a glorious celebration of our
diversity—and of the strength that comes from the myriad voices of
all races that make us who we are.”—Quincy Jone
“What a gem of a book! To read, to see, to hear the history of
America, right and wrong, in song. This is an unusually
well-written and moving story; it’s about us and U.S. all at the
same time—as intimate as it is majestic in scope and reach.”—Ken
Burns
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