Jon Meacham
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| Jon Meacham | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1969 (age 39–40) Chattanooga, Tennessee |
| Occupation | Author, Journalist, Editor |
| Nationality | American |
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Jon Meacham (born 1969 in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is the editor of Newsweek, a Pulitzer Prize winning bestselling author and a commentator on politics, history, and religious faith in America.
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[edit] Biography
Born in Chattanooga, Meacham attended elementary school at Saint Nicholas School, moving on to the McCallie School and the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, graduating summa cum laude in English Literature; he was salutatorian and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
He and his wife, Margaret Keith Smythe Meacham, a Mississippi native, University of Virginia and Columbia University Teachers College graduate, and the former Executive Director of the Harlem Day Charter School, live in New York City and Sewanee, Tennessee, with their three young children.
[edit] Newsweek magazine
Meacham joined Newsweek as a writer in January 1995, became national affairs editor in June of that year, and was named managing editor in November 1998 at age 29. In September 2006, he was promoted to the position of editor.
[edit] Author
A New York Times bestselling author, Meacham is the author of Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship, a chronicle of the wartime relationship between Roosevelt and Churchill, and American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation, a historical portrait of the spiritual foundation of America.
He edited Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement, a collection of distinguished nonfiction about the mid-century struggle against Jim Crow.
Meacham's newest biography, American Lion, is about Andrew Jackson and his White House circle. A bestseller, it was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
[edit] Affiliations
A contributing editor of The Washington Monthly, Meacham is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a communicant of St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, where he serves on the Vestry of the 180 year-old Episcopal parish. He is also a former member of the Board of Regents of University of the South, the Vestry of Trinity Church Wall Street and the Leadership Council of the Harvard Divinity School. He received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University in 2005 and another from Loyola College in Maryland in 2007. He also holds honorary doctorates from Emmanuel College, Boston, and Wagner College, New York City.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Excerpt from 'American Lion' at Newsweek.com
- Index of articles and essays by Jon Meacham at Newsweek.com
[edit] Books by Jon Meacham
- American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (2008) ISBN 978-1400063253
- American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation (2006) ISBN 978-0812976663
- Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship (2004) ISBN 978-0812972825
- Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2003) ISBN 978-0375758812
[edit] Articles by Jon Meacham
- Epilepsy: A Storm in the Brain
- The End of Christian America
- The American Promise
- Franklin and Winston: An Epic Friendship
- The Lost Lucy Letter
- The Big Three
- A Father's Words on Going to War
- The New Face of Race
- Relics from 'the Great Crusade'
[edit] Reviews of American Gospel
- America Magazine
- The Enlightened Republic (Washington Post)
- 'Gospel' spreads the good news about faith (USA Today)
- American Religion, the Great Retreat (New York Review of Books)
- It's gospel: Religion has always divided America (Dallas Morning News)
- Lutheran Partners magazine
