![]() ![]() “The push and pull of the constitutional experiment has been between hope and fear, selfishness and sacrifice, personal ambition and the common good,” he says. In a time when many feel the United States has never faced such dangerous, divisive days, and democracy itself hangs by a thread, Meacham looks to the past for lessons drawn from similarly perilous points in the past. “The Soul of America,” both book and film, explores that idea across the sweep of American history. It was an important shift, I think, because it is more representative: You can be fearful without being hateful, actively hateful.” “It widened the aperture, this idea of where were we broadly fearful that then would manifest itself in acts of hatred. Because you can be fearful without hating, right? “Landing on the idea of fear was critical to the book, and thus to the documentary. “I started thinking, It’s not hate versus hope so much as it’s fear versus hope,” he says. A month later, the perspective he’d had in his Time essay shifted focus, Meacham says. ![]()
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