Jon Meacham Audio & Video

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear.

In this lecture provided on streaming video by the Google Talks, historian and Newsweek editor Jon Meacham picks apart the mixed legacy of President Andrew Jackson.

Meacham delivers the definitive human portrait of Andrew Jackson, a pivotal president who forever changed the American presidency--and America itself.

It Was Said, the 2021 Webby Award winner for Best Podcast Series, takes a look back on some of the most powerful and timeless speeches in history. Written and narrated by Pulitzer Prize winning and best-selling historian Jon Meacham, this documentary podcast takes you through generation-defining speeches.

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power gives us Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era.

Meacham delivers the definitive human portrait of Andrew Jackson, a pivotal president who forever changed the American presidency--and America itself.

After winning a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of President Andrew Jackson, political writer John Meacham followed up his success with an equally modern assessment of Thomas Jefferson.

Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were the greatest leaders of "the Greatest Generation."

Jon Meacham discusses his book, The Soul of America", with Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Hardball on 5/6/18. The United States' current partisan fury feels unprecedented, but Pulitzer-winning presidential historian Jon Meacham knows better.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian discusses his new biography of the 41st president, Destiny and Power with ABC News "This Week" host and chief anchor George Stephanopoulos.