A Lens on Present Day America: Abraham Lincoln and the Struggle for Democracy

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  • @carlettesouthern-robert2992
    @carlettesouthern-robert2992 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    John is brilliant and wise; hopefully we will hear him because, he can help guide our nation to heal.

  • @ellentroyer7889
    @ellentroyer7889 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Sensational conversation. Jon is a favorite biographer and a joy.

  • @whazzat8015
    @whazzat8015 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Entertaining, informative enjoyable

  • @randydavisman
    @randydavisman 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Finished "And There Was Light" a few months ago. A great, currently relevant read. Funny guy, too.

  • @msspi764
    @msspi764 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Wow! He knows about the connection between the Hodges letter and the anti-slavery Baptist division in Virginia and Kentucky that went on between the 1790s and around 1820. That’s a remarkably rare thing. Carter Tarrant’s role in the Baptists Friends of Humanity is largely ignored even when people know about the Lincoln family’s connection to abolition. That made some serious points with me. I feel less like the voice in the wilderness.

  • @paulkeniston5699
    @paulkeniston5699 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Liberty and Justice for All is the Goal

  • @geertdecoster5301
    @geertdecoster5301 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for this posting. Meacham for me personally is very much like America is for Europeans at times. I know that he's a dear but naive nevertheless too. He actually mirrored my own liking for Douglas and Nixon at the same time here. America needs great men but they'll never be truly perfect. Yes, Trump wouldn't have been president without his time on television. He mastered today's most popular media protection, the reality show. There, however, navity makes one fall down alright for someone like a Talleyrand would have seen the disaster coming and would have atleast tried to avoid it

  • @celestinesmith9113
    @celestinesmith9113 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes it is up to the citizenery

  • @PlayNiceFolks
    @PlayNiceFolks 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    MAKE AMERICA GREEN AGAIN

  • @alvaroestrella7364
    @alvaroestrella7364 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    🇺🇸 INDIANS WAR.. PEOPLE ARE DENNING THAT 1800 WAR.

  • @ИринаКим-ъ5ч
    @ИринаКим-ъ5ч หลายเดือนก่อน

    Williams Steven Martinez Thomas Johnson Jose

  • @LawrenceMabel-y8y
    @LawrenceMabel-y8y หลายเดือนก่อน

    Davis Jessica Martin David Martinez Edward

  • @sarahhoffpauir9401
    @sarahhoffpauir9401 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The manner in which Jon cuts off the moderator and ignores her questions needs improvement. I had to stop watching 22:23

    • @whazzat8015
      @whazzat8015 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      She didn't even get billing in the presentation's description.
      Of course you went through the introduction to find her name.
      They are old friends. She holds her own. Look her up.

    • @evansaleeby5186
      @evansaleeby5186 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      what are you talking about?

  • @richanglin7994
    @richanglin7994 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thought provoking. Interesting comment that our many of our Presidents either had strong father figures who set a high bar for achievement (both Roosevelts, Kennedy, both Bushes) or were absent and/or less than inspiring figures (Ford, Reagan, Clinton, Obama).
    Lincoln had a strong moral compass that he followed, even though it pointed in a direction that the country was not ready to follow. While I don't necessarily agree with the direction that several of the Presidents necessarily wanted to take us over the past 100 years, the best of those Presidents: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Reagan, along with others, did have a vision for America being something better. Can't see it with Trump. And while Meachem is a friend/advisor to Biden, if Biden has strong moral convictions, he's not necessarily able, at this stage of his life, to both articulate them and/or lead the country in pursuing them.

  • @Terry-te1ij
    @Terry-te1ij 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Warmonger

    • @PlayNiceFolks
      @PlayNiceFolks 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Freedom isn't free.