title: Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement
author:  Jon Meacham 
description: The civil rights movement not only changed America for the better, it also inspired some of the nation's best writing, as the pieces collected in <i>Voices in Our Blood</i> illustrate. The 40 essays contained in this anthology succeed in "capturing the complications behind the public spectacles and charting the competing impulses of grace and rage--the proper province of reporting, reflection, and writing," writes editor Jon Meacham in the introduction. Many famous novelists, journalists, and poets appear in these pages--Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, William Faulkner, Rebecca West, Maya Angelou, Ralph Ellison, Eudora Welty, E.B. White, Tom Wolfe--as well as many obscure writers who managed to capture moments in time for the benefit of all. All of these pieces deal with the multifaceted dimensions of America's dark history of racism and discrimination, its consequences, and, hopefully, its cure. This first major collection of enduring writing on the civil rights movement is a powerful and moving portrait that deserves to be read by all Americans. <i>--Eugene Holley Jr.</i>
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  ALSO BY JON MEACHAM
  
  
  _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)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Copyright © 2008 by Jon Meacham
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House
  Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
  
  
  RANDOM HOUSE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
  
  
  LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
  
  
  Meacham, Jon.  
  American lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House/Jon Meacham.  
  p. cm.  
  eISBN: 978-1-58836-822-5  
  1\. Jackson, Andrew, 1767–1845. 2. Presidents—United States—Biography. 3.
  United States—Politics and government—1829–1837. 4. Jackson, Andrew,
  1767–1845—Family. 5. Jackson, Andrew, 1767–1845—Friends and associates. I.
  Title.