Associated PressMarch 25, 2020
11min273
Sacrifice is an abstract concept for most living Americans.
Tag: Jon Meacham
Associated PressMarch 25, 2020
Ryan NicolMay 29, 2018
8min383
Listening to historian Jon Meacham speak to the Forum Club of Palm Beaches Tuesday, you’d be forgiven for forgetting one of the biggest political rallying cries of the past few years: “This is not normal.” Instead, Meacham says, we’ve been here before. He would know. Meacham’s newest book, “The Soul of America: The Battle for […]
Associated PressFebruary 20, 2017
10min275
It was an ugly, highly personal presidential election. An unvarnished celebrity outsider who pledged to represent the forgotten laborer took on an intellectual member of the Washington establishment looking to extend a political dynasty in the White House. Andrew Jackson‘s triumph in 1828 over President John Quincy Adams bears striking similarities to Donald Trump‘s victory […]
Mitch PerryNovember 5, 2015
7min370
I received a text message Wednesday night saying that the Tampa Bay Sierra Club had embraced Hillsborough County Commission Chairwoman Sandy Murman‘s late-hour plan to fund transportation projects, which sounds like a larger-size version of what the club sought this past summer. You remember, it asked the county to began raising mobility fees and the […]