Jon Meacham is the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair, American Presidency, at Vanderbilt University. A biographer, his latest book is And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. Meacham’s other books include His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, and American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for biography. A contributing editor at TIME, he has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Vanity Fair. Meacham is also a regular guest on “Morning Joe” and lectures on history, politics, and religious faith. He is a Council on Foreign Relations and Society of American Historians member.
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