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Jon Meacham
Born
Jon Ellis Meacham
(1969-05-20) May 20, 1969 (age 54)
Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.
Education
University of the South (BA)
Occupations
Writer
journalist
editor
historian
Spouse
Margaret Keith Smythe
(m. 1996)
Children
3
Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
Website
Official website
Jon Ellis Meacham (/ˈmiːtʃəm/; born May 20, 1969) is an American writer, reviewer, historian and presidential biographer who is serving as the Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral since November 7, 2021. A former executive editor and executive vice president at Random House, he is a contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, a contributing editor to Time magazine, and a former editor-in-chief of Newsweek. He is the author of several books. He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. He holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Endowed Chair in American Presidency at Vanderbilt University.
Jon Ellis Meacham (/ˈmiːtʃəm/; born May 20, 1969) is an American writer, reviewer, historian and presidential biographer who is serving as the Canon Historian...
Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels is a 2018 book by JonMeacham, published by Random House. The Soul of America debuted at number one...
convictions, intending to preserve democracy and the Union. It was written by JonMeacham and published by Random House in October 2022. This book is a New York...
and then to 1.5 million in January 2010—a decline of 50% in one year. JonMeacham, Editor-in-chief from 2006 to 2010, described his strategy as "counterintuitive"...
author and jurist F. W. Meacham (1856–1909), American composer John A. Meacham (born 1944), American professor JonMeacham (born 1969), AMerican journalist...
ISBN 978-1-101-88626-7. JonMeacham (2013). Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power. Random House Trade Paperbacks. pp. 11–13. ISBN 978-0-8129-7948-0. JonMeacham (2013)....
The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush is a 2015 book by JonMeacham about George H. W. Bush. The New York Times wrote that the book "reflects...
dreams of freedom and equality arising from a land of slavery and hatred. JonMeacham writes that, "With a single phrase, King joined Jefferson and Lincoln...
purpose". He was later called the "Moses of the Pilgrims", notes historian JonMeacham. The Pilgrims "believed they had a covenant like the Jewish people of...
Retrieved October 3, 2009. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Gloria Steinem, JonMeacham, Rashida Jones, "To the First Lady, With Love", New York Times Style...
its reporting and its more conservative editorial policies. In 2008, JonMeacham, former editor of Newsweek and a self-described "fan", criticised The...
Cross is a book by JonMeacham, published by Convergent Books in 2020. In the book, which originated as a series of sermons, Meacham examines the last...
speakers. A few notable clients included author Mitch Albom, author JonMeacham, TV host Karamo Brown, and activist Nadia Murad. ICM Partners' global...
books in 2019, with the first co-written with "Pulitzer Prize" winner JonMeacham which reached No. 2 on the New York Times Bestsellers list. Songs of...
chief legal correspondent, and host of MSNBC's The Beat with Ari Melber. JonMeacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, co-host of PBS television news magazine...
Kennedy Center. Retrieved March 29, 2020. Bahr, Sarah (January 19, 2022). "Jon Stewart to Receive Mark Twain Prize for American Humor". The New York Times...
Nullification, November 24, 1832". Yale Law School. Retrieved July 27, 2017. JonMeacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (2008) online p 239...
Green, David Ignatius, Mickey Kaus, Nicholas Lemann, Suzannah Lessard, JonMeacham, Timothy Noah, Joe Nocera, Nicholas Thompson, and Steven Waldman. In...
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