Jon Meacham

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Jon Meacham
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Jon Meacham, 2014
BornJon Ellis Meacham
(1969-05-20) May 20, 1969 (age 55)
Chattanooga, Tennessee, US
OccupationWriter, journalist, editor
NationalityAmerican
EducationBA
Alma materThe University of the South
Years active1995–present
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize
SpouseMargaret Keith Smythe Meacham
Children3
Website
www.jonmeacham.com

Jon Ellis Meacham (/ˈmiːtʃəm/; born May 20, 1969) is executive editor and executive vice president at Random House. He is a former editor-in-chief of Newsweek, and a contributing editor to Time magazine, editor-at-large of WNET. 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).

Career

Meacham joined Newsweek as a writer in January 1995.[1][2][3]

Meacham speaking in 2016

His presidential biography of Andrew Jackson won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.[4]

Television

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[5][6] and has appeared multiple times on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher.[7][8][9]

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.[A]
  • 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

  1. ^ Calderone, Michael (April 24, 2009). "Newsweek's Meacham prepares to leave the magazine | The Upshot Yahoo! News". News.yahoo.com. Retrieved May 6, 2011.
  2. ^ Jon Meacham (June 15, 2010). "Authors". Newsweek. Retrieved May 6, 2011.
  3. ^ "Commentary Magazine article". Commentary Magazine article. October 16, 2010. Retrieved May 6, 2011.
  4. ^ "2009 Pulitzer Prizes". www.pulitzer.org.
  5. ^ "Joe: Donald Trump's hostile takeover of the Republican Party". Retrieved 2016-06-30.
  6. ^ "Meacham: Bush knew exactly what he was saying". Retrieved 2016-06-30.
  7. ^ Real Time with Bill Maher (2016-01-22), Real Time with Bill Maher: Overtime – January 22, 2016 (HBO), retrieved 2016-06-30
  8. ^ Real Time with Bill Maher (2015-04-17), Real Time with Bill Maher: Overtime – April 17, 2015 (HBO), retrieved 2016-06-30
  9. ^ "Ep. 350 April 17, 2015 Real Time With Bill Maher". HBO. Retrieved 2016-06-30.
  10. ^ "The 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Biography or Autobiography". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-26. With biographical blurb and dustjacket description.

External links

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