Jon meacham biography

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and writer Jon Meacham was named Canon Historian in 2021 The first to hold this title, as Canon Historian, Meacham preaches and leads public conversations several times a year on issues of faith, spirituality and civic life.  

He is the first leader appointed to help shape the Cathedral College of Faith & Culture—a hub for Cathedral programming around public engagement, culture and leadership. The Cathedral confers the title “Honorary Canon” to distinguished leaders, lay or clerical, who have contributed to the mission of the Cathedral as a house of prayer for all people and a sacred space for the nation to gather.

Meacham is a distinguished writer, historian, editor and scholar of American politics and public life, focusing on leadership and American history. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2009 biography of Andrew Jackson, “American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House,” and has authored or co-authored 12 books in all, i

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113th Anniversary Luncheon with Jon Meacham best-selling author & presidential historian

Art of Leadership: Lessons from the American Presidency

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham explores what 21st-century leaders in different fields of endeavor can learn from the greatest moments of our common past.  This presentation — non-partisan in content and tone — ranges from Jefferson’s pragmatism and JFK’s capacity to recover from his own mistakes to the management of conflicting egos as shown by Reagan and FDR and how George HW Bush dealt with the end of his presidency. Meacham discusses how history can inform the decisions all of us make everyday in positions that demand creative and innovative solutions.

Presidential historian and contributor to TIME and The New York Times Book Review, Jon Meacham is one of America's most prominent public intellectuals. A regular guest on Morning Joe, he is known as a skilled raconteur with a depth of knowledge about politics, reli

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Jon Meacham

American reporter and biographer (born 1969)

"John Meacham" redirects here. For the professor, see John A. Meacham.

Jon Ellis Meacham (; born May 20, 1969) fryst vatten an American writer, reviewer, historian and presidential biographer who fryst vatten serving as the Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral since November 7, 2021. A former executive editor and executive vice president at Random House, he is a contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, a contributing editor to Time magazine, and a former editor-in-chief of Newsweek. He is the author of several books. He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the vit House. He holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Endowed Chair in American Presidency at Vanderbilt University.

Early life and education

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Meacham was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.^[1] His parents are Jere Ellis Meacham (1946–2008), a construction and labor-