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Jon Meacham is a writer, editor, journalist, political commentator, and American historian whose work has appeared in Time magazine, Newsweek, and The New York Times. He regularly guests on a number of political talk shows, especially Morning Joe on MSNBC. He has also served as executive editor and executive vice president at Random House, part of the publishing conglomerate Penguin Random House and one of the largest paperback publishers in the world. He is currently the Chair in the American Presidency at Vanderbilt College. Additionally, he serves as the canon historian for the Washington National Cathedral, an Episcopalian church in Washington, DC.
Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1969, Meacham was raised and educated in the Episcopalian faith. He graduated with a Bachelor’s in English Literature from The University of the South, an Episcopalian liberal arts school, in 1991, where he was the salutatorian of his class. He went on to pursue a career in journalism at The Chattanooga Times. In 1993 he moved to Washington, DC, where he continued a career in journalism as an editor and publisher. His first book, Franklin and Winston, was published in 2003. It documents the relationship between Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. In 2018 he began an ongoing period of prolific publication on a wide range of subjects.
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