Who is Jon Meacham

Jon Ellis Meacham (; born May 20, 1969) is an American writer, reviewer, historian and presidential biographer who is serving as the current Canon Historian of the Washington National Cathedral. 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 White House. He holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Endowed Chair in American Presidency at Vanderbilt University.

Early life

Meacham was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His parents are Jere Ellis Meacham (1946–2008),...
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Jon Meacham Poems

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Jon Meacham Quotes

• A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.
• Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.
• I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived.
• Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.
• Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

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Comments about Jon Meacham

• Duttonesq: in response to the morons who say gun control laws won’t stop the massacres, jon meacham said - what if it did stop this one!!! there would be some 9 year olds going to school today.
• Gregsankey: my latest reading is the soul of america: the battle for our better angels by jon meacham with a quote from dwight eisenhower “i’ll tell you what leadership is. it’s persuasion—and conciliation—and education—and patience. it’s long, slow, tough work.”
• 11thhour: former president trump kicks off his first campaign rally in waco, texas on saturday. it falls on the 30th anniversary of the deadly waco siege. historian jon meacham talks about the power of place, especially as trump amplifies calls for violence. more:
• 11thhour: former president trump kicks off his first campaign rally in waco, texas on saturday. it falls on the 30th anniversary of the deadly waco siege. historian jon meacham talks about the power of place, especially as trump amplifies calls for violence. more:
• Oldlife: cue (not doris kearns goodwin or jon meacham) but bill o'reilly and rush limbaugh "without professional historians, history education will be left more and more in the hands of social media influencers, partisan hacks...unconcerned with ...a complex...understanding of the past"

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