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Jon Meacham<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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Presidential Historian | Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Free tickets available for graduate students starting Monday, September 16th through the UB Ticket Office<\/a>.\u00a0 1 per UB ID.<\/div>\n
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Wed., Oct. 16, 2024 at 7:00 p.m.
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More About Jon Meacham<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham is one of America’s most prominent public intellectuals. A contributor to TIME, Meacham is a highly sought-after commentator, regularly appearing on MSNBC, CNN and other news outlets. A skilled orator with a depth of knowledge about politics, religion and current affairs, Meacham has the unique ability to bring history to life and offer historical context to current events and issues impacting our daily lives\u2014<\/i>whether we realize it or not\u2014<\/i>to audiences of all backgrounds and levels of understanding.<\/p>\n

He served as Newsweek’s managing editor from 1998 to 2006 and as editor from 2006 to 2010.<\/p>\n

Meacham released two podcasts with the History Channel: \u201cHope Through History\u201d and \u201cIt Was Said.\u201d Narrated and written by Meacham, season two of the critically acclaimed \u201cHope Through History\u201d podcast explores some of the most historic and trying times in American History, how the nation dealt with the impact of these moments, and how we came through these moments a more unified nation. \u201cIt Was Said,\u201d tells the stories of those crucial words, taking listeners back to inflection points ranging from the McCarthy era to our present time through the real-time rhetoric that shaped and suffused America as the country struggled through storm and strife. \u201cIt Was Said\u201d captures the nation we’ve been, and points ahead to the nation we hope to become.<\/p>\n

Meacham is the author of multiple New York Times bestsellers including, \u201cSongs of America,\u201d which is a celebration of the music that helped shape a nation. Co-written by musician Tim McGraw, \u201cSongs of America\u201d was praised as \u201ca glorious celebration of our diversity\u201d by Quincy Jones and an \u201cunusually well-written and moving story\u201d by Ken Burns. Another #1 New York Times bestseller, \u201c<\/i>The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels,\u201dexamines the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in U.S. history when hope overcame division and fear. He released \u201cHis Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope\u201d\u2014<\/i>an intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis that quickly gained bestseller status.<\/p>\n

Meacham’s presidential biography of George H. W. Bush, \u201cDestiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush,\u201d debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestsellers list. According to the Times, \u201c\u2018Destiny and Power\u2019 reflects the qualities of both subject and biographer: judicious, balanced, deliberative, with a deep appreciation of history and the personalities who shape it.\u201d He is a co-author of \u201cImpeachment: An American History,\u201d which reveals the complicated motives behind the three impeachments in U.S. history. A #1 New York Times bestseller, \u201cThomas Jefferson: The Art of Power\u201d was hailed as “masterful and intimate” by Fortune magazine. Meacham’s other national bestsellers include \u201cFranklin and Winston,\u201d \u201cAmerican Gospel,\u201d and \u201c<\/i>American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House,\u201d which won a Pulitzer Prize.<\/p>\n

Meacham is a frequent guest on \u201cMorning Joe;\u201d \u201cReal Time with Bill Maher;\u201d \u201cThe 11th Hour,\u201d and was featured in Ken Burns\u2019 documentary series \u201cThe Roosevelts: An Intimate History.\u201d FOX News\u00a0produced an hour-long special about Meacham\u2019s \u201cDestiny and Power.\u201d<\/p>\n

Named a \u201cGlobal Leader for Tomorrow\u201d by the World Economic Forum, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a fellow of the Society of American Historians. Meacham is a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University where he holds the Rogers Chair in the American Presidency. His latest New York Times bestseller, \u201cAnd There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle,\u201d was published in October 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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