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.
American Struggle
The Federalist Papers
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 Federalist Papers
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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