Jon Meacham
An Evening with
Friday, February 27 • 7 pm
Tickets $40 (includes fees)
Includes a copy of American Struggle
Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, historian, and commentator known for bringing depth and humanity to the story of America. He holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair in the American Presidency at Vanderbilt University, where he also co-chairs the Vanderbilt Project on Unity & Democracy. A contributing editor at Time and Canon Historian of Washington National Cathedral, Meacham writes and lectures widely on history, politics, and faith.
He is the author of multiple New York Times bestsellers, including American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography), The Soul of America, His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope, and And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle, which received the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize and numerous other honors. His other works include acclaimed biographies of Thomas Jefferson, Franklin and Winston, and George H.W. Bush, as well as editorial projects highlighting American voices of leadership and conscience.
Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Meacham is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Society of American Historians. He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post and Garden & Gun. He lives in Nashville and Sewanee with his wife and children.