Jon Meacham, author portrait
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Jon Meacham

Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer. The author of the New York Times bestsellers Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, Franklin and Winston, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, and The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, he is a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University, a contributing writer for The New York Times Book Review, and a fellow of the Society of American Historians. Meacham lives in Nashville and in Sewanee with his wife and children.
The Call to Serve
And There Was Light
Songs of America: Young Reader's Edition
His Truth Is Marching On
The Hope of Glory
The Soul of America
Impeachment
Destiny and Power
Thomas Jefferson: President and Philosopher
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
American Lion
American Gospel
Voices in Our Blood

Books

The Call to Serve
And There Was Light
Songs of America: Young Reader's Edition
His Truth Is Marching On
The Hope of Glory
The Soul of America
Impeachment
Destiny and Power
Thomas Jefferson: President and Philosopher
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
American Lion
American Gospel
Voices in Our Blood

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