An Evening With Jon Meacham

Schedule

Sun Mar 01 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

The Synagogue | Congregation B'nai Emunah | Tulsa, OK

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About this Event

On Sunday, March 1 at 7:00pm, Magic City Books and Tulsa Town Hall present a special event with Jon Meacham to celebrate the publication of his latest book, American Struggle.


“Jon Meacham has done it again. If there is a soul in American history, it emerges—indeed, explodes—from these pages.” –David W. Blight, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

This ticketed event will take place at Congregation B'nai Emunah in Tulsa, 1719 S Owasso Ave. Tickets include one (1) copy of American Struggle ($38 value) and one (1) general admission seat at the event.

All books will be available for pickup at the event.

There is a limit of four tickets per transaction. Please provide the full name and email address of each ticket holder so that all event notifications and information can be sent to all attendees.

If you have a ticket and are unable to attend the event, you will be able to pick up your book at Magic City Books during normal business hours. The last day for ticket holders to pick up American Struggle by Jon Meacham is Monday, March 30, 2026. We will make an effort to have signed books available for pick up but cannot guarantee a signed copy.


About American Struggle

In a polarized era, history can become a subject of political contention. Many see America as perfect; many others argue that the national experiment is fundamentally flawed. The truth, Meacham shows, likely lies between these extremes. America has had shining hours, and also dark ones.

In American Struggle, Jon Meacham illuminates the nation’s complicated past. This rich and diverse collection covers a wide spectrum of history, from 1619 to the twenty-first century, with primary-source documents that take us back to critical moments in which Americans fought over the meaning and the direction of the national experiment. From the founders to Lincoln to Obama, from Andrew Jackson to Theodore Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan, from Seneca Falls to the March on Washington, this chorus—sometimes discordant and always fascinating—tells the story of the country and of its people. As clashes over liberty and slavery, inclusion and exclusion, play out, these voices, brilliantly framed by Meacham’s singular commentary, remind us that contentious citizenship and fair-minded observations are essential to bringing about the more perfect union envisioned in the Preamble to the Constitution, which Frederick Douglass called a “glorious liberty document.”

Conflict is nothing new in our democracy; rather, as Meacham and these texts show, tensions are inherent, stubborn, and perennial. And American Struggle teaches us anew that to know what has come before, to watch as long-running disputes rise and fall, is to be armed against despair.


About the Author

Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer. The author of the New York Times bestsellers And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle; Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power; American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House; Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship; Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush; and His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope, he holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair in the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University and is a fellow of the Society of American Historians.

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The Synagogue | Congregation B'nai Emunah, 1719 South Owasso Avenue, Tulsa, United States

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