| Jon Meacham | |
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| Born | Jon Ellis Meacham May 20, 1969 Chattanooga, Tennessee |
| Occupation | Author, Journalist, editor |
| Nationality | American |
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Jon Meacham (born May 20, 1969) is executive editor and executive vice president at Random House.[1] A former editor of Newsweek and a Pulitzer Prize winning bestselling author and a commentator on politics, history, and religious faith in America, he is a contributing editor to Time magazine and editor-at-large of WNET Public Media, the New York public television station.
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Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Meacham attended St. Nicholas School, 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.[2] He is an initiate of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity[3] and member of the Sewanee class of 1991.[4]
An only child, Meacham spent his high school years living with his grandfather, Judge Ellis K. Meacham. A legendary figure in Chattanooga and author of three Napoleonic-era maritime novels about the Bombay Marine of the East India Company, Judge Meacham is credited with giving Meacham his interest in history, literature, and politics.
He and his wife, Margaret Keith Smythe Meacham, a native of Mississippi, University of Virginia and Columbia University Teachers College graduate, former executive director of the Harlem Day Charter School, and a former programs officer with the Fund for Public Schools in New York, live in New York City and Sewanee, Tennessee, with their three children.
A New York Times bestselling author, Meacham wrote 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 latest biography, American Lion, is about Andrew Jackson and his White House circle. A bestseller, it was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography.
He is at work on biographies of Presidents Thomas Jefferson and George H. W. Bush.
Meacham is editing books by, among others, Al Gore, Clara Bingham, Charles Peters, Mary Soames, Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough, Jeremy McCarter, and Matthew Bowman. He is also supervising the publication of the letters of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. and four real-time e-books on Campaign 2012 by Politico's Mike Allen and Evan Thomas.
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 has served on the Vestry of the 180 year-old Episcopal parish. He is a former trustee and member of the Board of Regents of University of the South. Meacham is a Fellow of the Society of American Historians, a member of the Vestry of Trinity Church Wall Street, is a trustee of the Churchill Centre, and serves as National Board Chair of the Advisory Board of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. The Anti-Defamation League awarded Meacham the Hubert H. Humphrey First Amendment Prize. He received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University in 2005 and holds five other honorary doctorates. In 2011, he made the "Salon 2011 Hack List,"[5] coming in at number 18.
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 editor. In August 2010 Meacham announced[6] that he would depart Newsweek upon completion of the sale of the magazine by the Washington Post Company.[7][8] He also written essays and reviews for The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times Book Review.
From May, 2010 to April, 2011, Meachum was co-host with Allison Stewart of Need to Know. The program was a weekly one hour television news magazine, broadcast on Friday evenings, on the Public Broadcasting System.[9]
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