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 And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle; Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power; American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House; Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship; Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush; and His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope, he holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair at Vanderbilt University and is a fellow of the Society of American Historians.
American Struggle
The Call to Serve
And There Was Light
Songs of America: Young Reader's Edition
His Truth Is Marching On
The Hope of Glory
Songs of America
The Soul of America
Impeachment
Destiny and Power
Thomas Jefferson: President and Philosopher
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
American Lion
American Gospel
Franklin and Winston
Voices in Our Blood

Books

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

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FROM THE PAGE: Read an excerpt from Jon Meacham’s American Struggle

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