Jon Meacham, Author . Random $29.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-375-50500-3
Meacham, managing editor of Newsweek
(editor, Voices in Our Blood), delivers an eloquent, well-researched account of one of the 20th century's most vital friendships: that between FDR and Winston Churchill. Both men were privileged sons of...
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Jon Meacham, Author . Random $30 (483p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6325-3
Newsweek
editor and bestselling author Meacham (Franklin and Winston
) offers a lively take on the seventh president’s White House years. We get the Indian fighter and hero of New Orleans facing down South Carolina radicals’ efforts to...
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Jon Meacham, Author Random House $23.95 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6555-4
Historian and Newsweek editor Meacham's third book examines over 200 years of American history in its quest to prove the idea of religious tolerance, along with the separation of church and state, is ""perhaps the most brilliant American success.""...
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John Meacham. Random, $35 (800p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6766-4
Another Jefferson biography (right on the heels of Henry Wiencek’s Master of the Mountain)! Fortunately, Meacham’s is a fine work, deserving a place high on the list of long biographies of its subject even if rivaled by such shorter ones as Richard...
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Jon Meacham. Random House, $35 (860p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6765-7
America's 41st president shines as a nice guy with an edge of steel in this admiring biography. Pulitzer-winning historian Meacham (American Lion) styles Bush as the embodiment of Greatest Generation virtues: hard-working, dutiful, patriotic, well-ma
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Jon Meacham, Author, Len Cariou, Read by , read by Lou Cariou. Random House Audio $32.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-0676-5
Drawing on interviews with surviving staffers and other previously untapped sources, Newsweek managing editor Meacham delves into the deep and complicated relationship between the two men who may very well have been the most powerful men on the...
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Jon Meacham, Author, Grover Gardner, Read by Random House Audio Assets $32.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-3437-9
Newsweek editor Meacham asserts at the start of this treatise on religion and its role in the nation's development: ""If totalitarianism was the great problem of the twentieth century, then extremism is so far the great problem of the twenty-first...
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Jon Meacham, read by Paul Michael. Random House Audio, 25 hrs., $60 ISBN 978-1-101-92296-5
Though a stage and screen actor, Michael reads—rather than performs—this biography of the 41st president of the United States. The text is full of quotes from the diaries Bush and his wife, Barbara, kept throughout their lives, and from the books...
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Jon Meacham. Random House, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-58981-2
America’s centuries-long struggles about race, gender, and immigration are viewed through the lens of presidential calculation and convictions in this sonorous but shallow study. Vanderbilt historian Meacham (Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power)...
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Jon Meacham. Random House, $22 (144p) ISBN 978-0-593-23666-6
In this eloquent yet inconsistent work, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Meacham (The Soul of America) shares personal reflections on the seven last sayings of Jesus from the cross. He explores how the sayings come from a combination of gospel...
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Jon Meacham. Random House, $40 (720p) ISBN 978-0-553-39396-5
Pulitzer winner Meacham (His Truth Is Marching On) more than justifies yet another Lincoln biography in this nuanced and captivating look at the president’s “struggle to do right as he defined it within the political universe he and his country...
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Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali, Peter Baker, and Jeffrey A. Engel. Modern Library, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-1-984-85378-3
Four scholars plumb the meaning and mechanics of presidential impeachments past—and, possibly, future—in this illuminating historical study. Pulitzer-winning biographer Meacham (American Lion) analyzes Andrew Johnson’s impeachment as a political act
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Jon Meacham. Random House, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-1-984855-02-2
A profile in courage and faith under fire emerges from this vivid portrait of Georgia congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis (1940–2020). Meacham (The Hope of Glory) focuses on Lewis’s experiences during the late 1950s and ’60s as chairman of...
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