Jon Meacham

{{short description|American journalist and biographer (born 1969)}}

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| birth_name = Jon Ellis Meacham

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|5|20}}

| birth_place = Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.

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| education = University of the South (BA)

| spouse = {{marriage|Margaret Keith Smythe|1996}}

| children = 3

| awards = Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography

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Jon Ellis Meacham ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|m|iː|tʃ|ə|m}}; born May 20, 1969) is an American writer, reviewer, historian and presidential biographer who is 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 White House. He holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Endowed Chair in American Presidency at Vanderbilt University.

Early life and education

Meacham was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His parents are Jere Ellis Meacham (1946–2008), a construction and labor-relations executive who was decorated for valor during the Vietnam War,{{Cite news |url=https://www.chattanoogan.com/2008/10/1/136213/Meacham-Jere-Ellis.aspx |title=Meacham, Jere Ellis |date=October 1, 2008 |access-date=March 19, 2020 |language=en}} and Linda (McBrayer) Brodie. His paternal grandparents, Ellis K. Meacham and Jean Austin Meacham, raised him after his parents' divorce.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46939835/journalist-is-topic-for-21st-century/ |title=Journalist is topic for 21st Century Club |date=January 23, 2003 |work=The Star-Herald |access-date=March 19, 2020 |pages=18}} When he was a child, his grandfather had discussions each morning with a group of men about local and national politics. As a result, Meacham developed an interest in politics. He received an invitation to Ronald Reagan's 1981 inauguration in Washington, D.C., in response to a letter that he sent to the president-elect.

Meacham attended The McCallie School,{{efn|He read Robert V. Remini's three-volume biography of Jackson while in high school. Remini read Meacham's biography of Jackson in manuscript.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/06/arts/robert-v-remini-andrew-jackson-biographer-dies-at-91.html |title=Robert Remini, Exhaustive Andrew Jackson Biographer, Dies at 91 |last=Yardley |first=William |date=April 5, 2013 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=May 12, 2019}}|name=Remini}} where he developed an interest in the civil rights movement. He then went on to attend Sewanee: The University of the South where he graduated salutatorian and summa cum laude in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.{{cite news |title=Jon Meacham (C'91) returns to Sewanee as a history professor |url=https://thesewaneepurple.org/2014/02/15/jon-meacham-c91-returns-to-sewanee-as-a-history-professor/ |access-date=June 9, 2018 |work=The Sewanee Purple |date=February 15, 2014}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46939570/university-of-the-south-marks-150-years/ |title=University of the South marks 150 years |date=October 11, 2007 |work=The Tennessean |access-date=March 18, 2020 |pages=B2}}

Career

=Journalist and editor=

After college, he worked at The Chattanooga Times, until he moved to Washington, D.C., in 1993 and became co-editor of Washington Monthly. In 1995, he worked for Newsweek as the national affairs editor, and became managing editor in late-1998.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46940309/sewanee-grad-scales-magazine-heights/ |title=Sewanee grad scales magazine heights |date=February 5, 2001 |work=The Tennessean |access-date=March 19, 2020 |first=Michael|last=Cass |pages=14}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/46940451/meacham-success-no-surprise-to-peers/ |title=Meacham: Success no surprise to peers |date=February 5, 2001 |work=The Tennessean |access-date=March 19, 2020 |first=Michael|last=Cass |pages=15}}{{efn|The Star-Herald reported that Meacham became Managing Editor after three months on the job.}} In 2006, he became editor-in-chief of Newsweek{{'}}s print and online formats.

A former executive editor and executive vice president at Random House,{{Cite news |url=https://news.virginia.edu/content/art-power-author-jon-meacham-speak-jefferson |title='Art of Power' Author Jon Meacham to Speak on Jefferson |date=September 23, 2014 |first=Matt|last=Kelly|access-date=March 19, 2020 |language=en}} he is a contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review and The Washington Post, and a contributing editor to Time magazine.{{Cite news |last=Adweek |first=November 11, 2010 |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jon-meacham-becomes-time-_n_964742 |title=Jon Meacham Becomes Time Contributing Editor |date=September 9, 2011 |access-date=March 19, 2020 |language=en}}{{efn|Meacham has been strongly critical of President Donald Trump; in a 2018 New York Times article, he compared Trump to the Rev. Charles Coughlin, a Catholic priest known for his passionate radio sermons sprinkled with antisemitism. Meacham also drew an unfavorable comparison of Trump's manner of speaking with the more eloquent styles of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan.{{cite news |last1=Meacham |first1=Jon |title=Why Trump Is More Father Coughlin Than Franklin Roosevelt |url=https://nyti.ms/2HMqHHn |access-date=June 28, 2018 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 3, 2018}}}}

=Biographer and book author=

He was the editor for Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement which was released in 2001. Spanning the period from 1941 to 1998, the book includes writings of noted civil-rights leaders, novelists, and journalists, like John Lewis, James Baldwin, William Faulkner, and David Halberstam. His book, Franklin and Winston, Partners of an Intimate Relationship about Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, was released in 2003.

Meacham has explored America's leaders in such works as Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power as well as his biography of Andrew Jackson, American Lion, which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.{{Cite news |last=Abramson |first=Jill |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/books/review/thomas-jefferson-the-art-of-power-by-jon-meacham.html |title=Grand Bargainer |date=November 2, 2012 |work=The New York Times |access-date=November 27, 2020 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/jon-meacham |title=The 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Biography |website=The Pulitzer Prizes |language=en |access-date=March 18, 2020}}{{efn||name=Remini}} Jill Abramson writing in a book review in The New York Times states that Meacham's books are "well researched, drawing on new anecdotal material and up-to-date historiographical interpretations" and presents his "subjects as figures of heroic grandeur despite all-too-human shortcomings". In his biography of Jefferson, Meacham identifies qualities that would be helpful in the current political arena, "Jefferson repeatedly reached out to his enemies and showed ideological flexibility." Regarding the former president's stance on slavery, Meacham states, "Slavery was the rare subject where Jefferson's sense of realism kept him from marshaling his sense of hope in the service of the cause of reform."

Selected by the Bush family to be the official biographer for George H. W. Bush, Meacham's book, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, was published in 2015. He gave eulogies for both President Bush and Barbara Bush when they died in 2018.{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/us/politics/who-is-jon-meacham.html |title=Jon Meacham, Bush's Biographer, Will Also Deliver a Eulogy |first=Michael |last=Tackett |date=December 4, 2018 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=June 13, 2019}}

=Other appearances=

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Over the years Meacham has been a frequent guest on various talk shows such as Charlie Rose, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, and Real Time with Bill Maher.{{Citation |author=Real Time with Bill Maher |title=Real Time with Bill Maher: Overtime – January 22, 2016 (HBO) |date=January 22, 2016 }}{{Citation |author=Real Time with Bill Maher |title=Real Time with Bill Maher: Overtime – April 17, 2015 (HBO) |date=April 17, 2015}} From May 2010 to April 2011, Meacham was co-host with Alison Stewart of Need to Know on PBS. He is also a frequent guest on CBS This Morning, Face the Nation, MSNBC's Morning Joe, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.{{Cite web |url=http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/joe-donald-trumps-hostile-takeover-the-republican-party |title=Joe: Donald Trump's hostile takeover of the Republican Party |date=March 2, 2016 |website=MSNBC |access-date=June 30, 2016}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/meacham--bush-knew-exactly-what-he-was-saying-560788547683 |title=Meacham: Bush knew exactly what he was saying |date=November 6, 2015 |website=MSNBC |access-date=June 30, 2016}}

In 2014, Meacham appeared in Ken Burns' documentary series The Roosevelts: An Intimate History on PBS. He also appeared in a cameo in the 2018 film The Front Runner.

Meacham taught history at his alma mater, the University of the South, in 2014. He was a visiting professor of political science at Vanderbilt University{{Cite news |last=Elliott |first=Stephen |url=https://www.nashvillepost.com/politics/people/article/21085301/haslam-joining-vanderbilt-faculty-for-leadership-course |title=Haslam joining Vanderbilt faculty for leadership course |date=September 4, 2019 |access-date=March 19, 2020 |language=en}} before being appointed to the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair in American Presidency.{{Cite news |url=https://tntribune.com/community/local/nashville/historian-goodwin-says-look-to-past-presidents-for-easing-current-political-divide/ |title=Historian Goodwin Says Look to Past Presidents for Easing Current Political Divide |date=November 7, 2019 |access-date=March 19, 2020 |language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191108152458/https://tntribune.com/community/local/nashville/historian-goodwin-says-look-to-past-presidents-for-easing-current-political-divide/|archive-date=8 November 2019|work=Tennessee Tribune}} Meacham is also the co-chair of the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy at Vanderbilt University.

=Politics=

Meacham was asked to speak at the 2020 Democratic National Convention on the Soul of America. He endorsed Joe Biden, saying, "history, which will surely be our judge, can also be our guide. From Seneca Falls to Selma to Stonewall, we're at our best when we build bridges, not walls".{{Cite web|last=Hains |first=Tim |date=August 20, 2020|title=Historian Jon Meacham Speaks On Final Night Of Democratic Convention|url=https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/08/20/historian_jon_meacham_speaks_on_final_night_of_democratic_convention.html|access-date=2020-08-21|website=www.realclearpolitics.com}} According to The New York Times, Meacham was part of the team writing some of Joe Biden's speeches for the 2020 United States presidential election, including Biden's acceptance speech,{{Cite news|last=Karni|first=Annie|date=November 9, 2020|title=The historian Jon Meacham, who wrote of 'the soul of America,' has been working on Biden's speeches.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/09/us/joe-biden-trump|access-date=November 9, 2020|issn=0362-4331}} and his 2024 State of the Union address.{{Cite news |last=Rogers |first=Katie |date=2024-03-06 |title=Biden Preps for the State of the Union Speech and Rowdy Republicans |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/us/politics/biden-state-of-the-union.html |access-date=2024-03-06 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

In November 2022, Meacham helped Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, write a speech announcing that she would not seek reelection to House Democratic leadership in the 118th United States Congress.{{Cite web |date=2022-11-17 |title=Nancy Pelosi says she will not seek re-election as Democratic leader in House – as it happened |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2022/nov/17/midterms-house-republican-majority-pelosi-future-mccarthy-biden-trump-election-latest |access-date=2022-11-18 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}

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.
2022: The Lincoln Forum's Richard Nelson Current Award of Achievement[https://www.thelincolnforum.org/richard-nelson-current-award-of-achievement The Lincoln Forum]
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

Meacham has also been awarded honorary doctorates from several universities:

2005: Doctor of Humane Letters, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University
2010: Dickinson College
2010: The University of the South D.Litt.{{cite news |last=Gregg |first=Becca |date=May 23, 2010 |title=Dickinson College sends graduates into the world |url=http://cumberlink.com/news/local/dickinson-college-sends-graduates-into-the-world/article_bdb51796-66d3-11df-b8a7-001cc4c002e0.html |work=The Sentinel |location=Carlisle, Pennsylvania |access-date=May 17, 2017}}{{cite news |url=http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/news/story/2010/may/16/sewanee-honors-bush-meacham/16858/ |title=Sewanee honors Bush, Meacham |first=Monica |last=Mercer |date=May 16, 2010 |newspaper=Chattanooga Times Free Press |access-date=June 13, 2019}}{{cite web |url=https://www.episcopalchurch.org/library/article/sewanee-announces-honorary-degree-recipients |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180423034111/https://www.episcopalchurch.org/library/article/sewanee-announces-honorary-degree-recipients |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 23, 2018 |title=Sewanee announces honorary degree recipients |date=May 13, 2010 |website=Episcopal Church |access-date=June 13, 2019 }}
2012: Loyola University New Orleans DHL{{cite web |url=http://www.loyno.edu/commencement/honorary-degrees |title=Honorary Degrees |website=Loyola University New Orleans |access-date=June 13, 2019}}{{cite web |url=http://www.loyno.edu/news/story/2012/3/20/2789 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328034636/http://www.loyno.edu/news/story/2012/3/20/2789 |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 28, 2012 |title=Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham to address Loyola's centennial class |date=March 20, 2012 |website=Loyola University New Orleans |access-date=June 13, 2019 }}
2017: Wake Forest University,{{cite web |url=https://commencement.news.wfu.edu/2010s/c2017/2017-honorary-degrees/ |title=2017: Honorary degrees |website=Wake Forest University |access-date=June 13, 2019}}
2017: Middlebury College D.Litt.{{cite web |title=Jon Meacham to Give Middlebury College Commencement Address |url=http://www.middlebury.edu/newsroom/archive/2017-news/node/546722 |website=Middlebury College |date=April 6, 2017 |access-date=June 13, 2019}}
2017: The University of Tennessee DHL{{cite web |url=https://news.utk.edu/2017/03/30/board-trustees-approves-honorary-degree-pulitzer-prize-writer-meacham/ |title=Board of Trustees Approves Honorary Degree for Pulitzer Prize Writer Meacham |date=March 30, 2017 |website=University of Tennessee |access-date=June 13, 2019}}
2018: The University of Massachusetts Lowell{{cite web |url=https://www.uml.edu/News/press-releases/2018/Commencement2018speakerrelease.aspx |title=Pulitzer Winner, Congresswoman to Address Class of 2018 |date=May 18, 2018 |website=University of Massachusetts Lowell |access-date=June 13, 2019}}
2019: Millsaps College{{Cite web |url=https://mississippitoday.org/2019/05/02/millsaps-announces-2019-honorary-degree-recipients-jon-meacham-jesmyn-ward-and-dr-lamar-weems/ |title=Millsaps announces honorary degree recipients: Jon Meacham, Jesmyn Ward, Dr. Lamar Weems |date=May 2, 2019 |website=Mississippi Today |language=en-US |access-date=March 18, 2020}}

Personal life

{{As of|2014}}, Meacham resides in Belle Meade, Tennessee. He married Margaret Keith Smythe, called Keith, in 1996. At the time of their marriage, she was a teacher, having studied at the University of Virginia and the University of Provence. She taught in Metz, France under a Fulbright Scholarship.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/19532000/jms-engagement-to-keith/ |title=Smithe-Meacham engagement told |date=November 14, 1996 |work=The Star-Herald |access-date=March 18, 2020 |pages=24}} They have three children.{{Cite news |last=Reed |first=Julia |url=https://www.elledecor.com/design-decorate/interiors/meacham |title=House Tour: Is This The Chicest Home In Nashville? |date=July 15, 2014 |access-date=March 19, 2020 |language=en-US}}

Meacham is an Episcopalian, and was chosen as Canon Historian of Washington National Cathedral in 2021.{{Cite web|last=Paulsen|first=David|date=2021-03-10|title=Washington National Cathedral names Jon Meacham canon historian|url=https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/pressreleases/washington-national-cathedral-names-jon-meacham-canon-historian/|access-date=2021-11-06|website=Episcopal News Service|language=en-US}}{{Cite news|last=Jenkins|first=Jack|date=12 March 2021|title=Washington National Cathedral names Jon Meacham canon historian|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/washington-national-cathedral--john-meacham-john-lewis/2021/03/12/ac9c6fd4-81cc-11eb-9ca6-54e187ee4939_story.html|access-date=6 November 2021|newspaper=The Washington Post}}

Bibliography

Title	Year	ISBN	Publisher	Subject matter	Interviews, presentations, and reviews	Comments
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[Editor] Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement	2001	{{ISBN\|978-0-375-75881-2}}	Random House	Civil rights movement	[https://www.c-span.org/video/?162667-2/voices-blood-civil-rights-movement Washington Journal interview with Meacham on Voices In Our Blood, February 21, 2001], C-SPAN	Meacham was editor of this book
[https://archive.org/details/franklinwinston00jonm Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship]	2003	{{ISBN\|978-0-8129-7282-5}}	Random House	Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill	[https://www.c-span.org/video/?179141-1/franklin-winston Presentation by Meacham on Franklin and Winston, November 5, 2003], C-SPAN [https://www.c-span.org/video/?179761-1/franklin-winston Booknotes interview with Meacham on Franklin and Winston, January 5, 2004], C-SPAN [https://www.c-span.org/video/?456775-7/franklin-winston Presentation by Meacham on Franklin and Winston, January 30, 2019], C-SPAN [http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/pritzker-military-presents/jon-meacham-franklin-winston/ Meacham discusses Franklin & Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship] at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library
[https://archive.org/details/americangospel00jonm American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation]	2006	{{ISBN\|978-0-8129-7666-3}}	Random House	History of religion in the United States, Founding Fathers of the United States	[https://www.c-span.org/video/?192988-1/american-gospel Interview with Meacham on American Gospel, June 14, 2006], C-SPAN
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House	2008	{{ISBN\|978-1-4000-6325-3}}	Random House	Andrew Jackson	[https://www.c-span.org/video/?282625-2/american-lion Presentation by Meacham on American Lion, November 16, 2008], C-SPAN [https://www.c-span.org/video/?282947-4/president-andrew-jackson Washington Journal interview with Meacham on American Lion, December 18, 2008], C-SPAN [https://www.c-span.org/video/?289125-11/american-lion Presentation by Meacham on American Lion, September 26, 2009], C-SPAN [https://www.c-span.org/video/?289125-12/jon-meacham-interview Interview with Meacham on American Lion, September 26, 2009], C-SPAN	This book won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
[Editor] American Homer: Reflections on Shelby Foote and His Classic The Civil War: A Narrative	2001	{{ISBN\|9780679643708}}	Random House	Shelby Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative		Meacham was editor of this work, which is available as part of Random House's 2011 edition of the boxed set of Foote's Civil War trilogy{{cite web \|title=The Civil War Trilogy Box Set \|url=https://www.randomhousebooks.com/books/215557/R3/ \|website=Random House Group \|access-date=September 23, 2023}}
[https://archive.org/details/thomasjeffersona00meac Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power]	2012	{{ISBN\|978-1-4000-6766-4 }}	Random House	Thomas Jefferson	[https://www.c-span.org/video/?309458-1/thomas-jefferson-art-power Presentation by Meacham on Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, November 14, 2012], C-SPAN
Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush	2015	{{ISBN\|978-1-4000-6765-7}}	Random House	George H.W. Bush	[https://www.c-span.org/video/?400044-2/destiny-power Presentation by Meacham on Destiny and Power, November 8, 2015], C-SPAN [https://www.c-span.org/video/?400044-1/life-presidency-george-hw-bush Discussion with Meacham and George W. Bush about the life and career of George H.W. Bush, November 8, 2015], C-SPAN [https://www.c-span.org/video/?400036-12/destiny-power Presentation by Meacham on Destiny and Power, November 21, 2015], C-SPAN [https://www.c-span.org/video/?415635-7/destiny-power Presentation by Meacham on Destiny and Power, September 24, 2016], C-SPAN
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels	2018	{{ISBN\|978-0-3995-8981-2}}	Random House	History of the United States	[https://www.c-span.org/video/?445123-2/the-soul-america Presentation by Meacham on The Soul of America, May 9, 2018], C-SPAN [https://www.c-span.org/video/?445992-3/jon-meacham-the-soul-america Washington Journal interview with Meacham on The Soul of America, May 23, 2018], C-SPAN [https://www.c-span.org/video/?449746-19/the-soul-america Presentation by Meacham on The Soul of America, September 1, 2018], C-SPAN [https://www.c-span.org/video/?456776-3/the-soul-america Presentation by Meacham on The Soul of America, January 31, 2019], C-SPAN
[Co-author] Impeachment: An American History	2018	{{ISBN\|978-1984853783}}	Modern Library	Impeachment of Andrew Johnson	[https://www.c-span.org/video/?457719-1/history-impeachment Panel discussion with Meacham, Naftali, Baker, and Engel on Impeachment: An American History, February 20, 2019], C-SPAN	Meacham wrote the portion of this book about the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson. Three other writers wrote on impeachment efforts related to other presidents: Timothy Naftali (Nixon), Peter Baker (Clinton), and Jeffrey A. Engel (Trump).
[Co-author] Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation	2019	{{ISBN\|978-0-5931-3295-1}}	Random House	Music of the United States	[https://www.c-span.org/video/?468103-3/songs-america Presentation by Meacham and Tim McGraw on Songs of America, January 29, 2020], C-SPAN	Written with Tim McGraw.
The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross	2020	{{ISBN\|978-0-5932-3666-6}}	Convergent Books	Sayings of Jesus on the cross
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope	2020	{{ISBN\|978-1-9848-5502-2}}	Random House	John Lewis	[https://www.c-span.org/video/?475572-16/his-truth-marching-on Presentation by Meacham on His Truth Is Marching On, September 26, 2020], C-SPAN [https://www.c-span.org/video/?475572-3/call-jon-meacham Interview with Meacham on His Truth Is Marching On, September 26, 2020], C-SPAN [https://www.c-span.org/video/?510786-1/remembering-john-lewis Panel discussion featuring Meacham on John Lewis, March 23, 2021], C-SPAN
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle	2022	{{ISBN\|978-0-553-39396-5}}	Random House	Abraham Lincoln	[https://www.c-span.org/video/?523864-1/jon-meacham-and-light Interview with Meacham on And There Was Light, October 24, 2022], C-SPAN