Jon Meacham

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Nationality American Name Jon Meacham Children 3		Years active 1995–present Notable awards Pulitzer Prize Role Editor

Born Jon Ellis Meacham May 20, 1969 (age 55) Chattanooga, Tennessee, US ( 1969-05-20 ) Occupation writer, journalist, editor Alma mater The University of the South Spouse Margaret Keith Smythe Meacham Awards Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography Education The McCallie School, Sewanee: The University of the South Parents Jere Ellis Meacham, Linda McBrayer Meacham Books Destiny and Power: The Amer, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of, American Lion, American Gospel, Franklin and Winston Similar People George H W Bush, Ron Chernow, Andrew Jackson, Doris Kearns Goodwin, David McCullough Profiles Twitter

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Jon Ellis Meacham (; born May 20, 1969) is executive editor and executive vice president at Random House. He is a contributing editor to Time magazine and editor-at-large of WNET, and a former editor-in-chief of Newsweek. He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. Meacham also wrote Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (2012).

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Career

Meacham joined Newsweek as a writer in January 1995.

His presidential biography of Andrew Jackson won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

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In 2010, Meacham received an honorary degree in journalism from Dickinson College.

Television

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From May 2010 to April 2011, Meacham was co-host with Alison Stewart of Need to Know on PBS. He is also a frequent guest on MSNBC's Morning Joe and has appeared multiple times on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher.

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He is also a frequent contributor panelist on many CNN programs, such as the Don Lemon Tonight and Anderson Cooper 360 and also with MSNBC's morning joe.

Books

Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (editor). New York: Random House. 2001. ISBN 978-0-375-75881-2.

Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship. New York: Random House. 2003. ISBN 978-0-8129-7282-5.

American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation. New York: Random House. 2006. ISBN 978-0-8129-7666-3.

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. New York: Random House. 2008. ISBN 978-1-4000-6325-3.

American Homer: Reflections on Shelby Foote and His Classic The Civil War: A Narrative (editor). New York: Random House. 2011.

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power. New York: Random House. 2012. ISBN 978-1-4000-6766-4.

Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush. New York: Random House. 2015. ISBN 978-1-4000-6765-7.

References

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