Jon Meacham

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Jon Ellis Meacham (born May 20, 1969) is a writer, editor, and presidential biographer.

He is a contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, a contributing editor to Time magazine, and a former Newsweek Editor-in-Chief.

He is the author of several books.

Andrew Jackson of the White House fought for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for American Lions.

He is the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Endowed Chair in American Presidency at Vanderbilt University, as well as a distinguished visiting professor in Vanderbilt University's Department of Political Science.

Early life

Meacham was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Jere Ellis Meacham (1946–2008), a building and labor relations executive who was awarded for vaping during the Vietnam War, and Linda (McBrayer) Brodie are his parents. Ellis K. Meacham and Jean Austin Meacham, his paternal grandparents, raised him after his parents' divorce. When he was a boy, his grandfather held talks with a group of men each morning about local and national politics. Meacham also became involved in politics as a result. In reaction to a letter sent to the president-elect, he was invited to Ronald Reagan's 1981 inauguration in Washington, D.C.

Meacham attended The McCallie School, where he developed an interest in the civil rights movement. He then moved to Sewanee, where he earned his salutatorian and summa cum laude in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature and was appointed to Phi Beta Kappa.

Personal life

Meacham lives in Belle Meade, Tennessee, as of 2014. In 1996, he married Margaret Keith Smythe, who was named Keith. She was a teacher at the University of Virginia and the University of Provence at the time of their wedding. She worked in Metz, France, as part of a Fulbright Scholarship. They have three children.

Meacham is an Episcopalian and was chosen as the Canon Historian of Washington National Cathedral in 2021.

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Career

He worked at The Chattanooga Times from high school to Washington, D.C., in 1993, where he became co-editor of Washington Monthly. In 1995, he served as the national affairs editor for Newsweek before becoming the managing editor in late-1998. He became editor-in-chief of Newsweek's print and online editions in 2006.

He is a contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post, as well as a contributing editor to Time magazine.

He was the editor of Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement, which was published in 2001. The book spans the period from 1941 to 1998, and includes essays by celebrated civil-rights scholars, writers, and journalists, including John Lewis, James Baldwin, William Faulkner, and David Halberstam. In 2003, Franklin and Winston, Partners of an Intimate Relationship About Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, was published.

Meacham has written about America's leaders in Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Life as well as his biography of Andrew Jackson, American Lion, which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. Jill Abramson's book review in The New York Times states that Meacham's books are "well researched," drawing on new anecdotal evidence and up-to-date historiographical interpretations, and portrays his "subjects as figures of heroic grandeur amid human inability." "Jefferson consistently reached out to his foes and displayed ideological flexibility," Meacham describes in his biography of Jefferson. "Slavery was the unusual subject where Jefferson's sense of realism prevented him from marshaling his enthusiasm in the cause of change," Meacham says.

Destiny and Power, George Herbert Walker Bush's book, Destiny and Strength, was released in 2015. When both President Bush and Barbara Bush died in 2018, he eulogied them.

Meacham has appeared on numerous talk shows, including Charlie Rose, The Colbert Report, and Real Time with Bill Maher. Meacham appeared on PBS from May 2010 to April 2011. Alison Stewart was co-host with Need to Know. In addition, he appears on CBS This Morning, Face the Country, MSNBC's Morning Joe, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

On PBS, Meacham appeared in Ken Burns' documentary film The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. In the 2018 film The Front Runner, he appeared in a cameo.

Meacham taught history at the University of the South in 2014. Before being named to the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair in American Presidency, he was a visiting professor of political science at Vanderbilt University. Meacham is also the co-chair of the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy at Vanderbilt University.

Meacham was invited to address the Soul of America at the 2020 Democratic National Convention. Joe Biden praised Joe Biden, saying, "history, which will surely be our judge," can also be our guide. We're at our best when we build bridges, not walls, from Seneca Falls to Selma to Stonewall. Meacham appeared in The New York Times as part of the team's writings for Joe Biden's presidential campaign in 2020, including Biden's acceptance address.

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Awards and honors

• 2009: Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House.
• 2013: Hubert H. Humphrey First Amendment Prize from the Anti-Defamation League
• 2013: Founder's Award from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
• 2016: The Sandra Day O’Connor Institute's Spirit of Democracy Award.
• Named a "Global Leader for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum
• A fellow of the Society of American Historians
• Member of the Council on Foreign Relations
• A trustee of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation and the Andrew Jackson Foundation
• Chairs the national advisory board of the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University.
• Distinguished visiting professor of history at The University of the South
• A visiting distinguished professor at Vanderbilt University