Franklin and Winston: A Portrait of a Friendship

Jon Meacham is executive editor and executive vice president at Random House. A former editor of Newsweek and a Pulitzer Prize winning bestselling author and a commentator on politics, history, and religious faith in America, he is a contributing editor to Time magazine and editor-at-large of WNET... Public Media, the New York public television station. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Meacham attended St. Nicholas School, the McCallie School and the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, graduating summa cum laude in English Literature; he was salutatorian and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is an initiate of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and member of the Sewanee class of 1991. An only child, Meacham spent his high school years living with his grandfather, Judge Ellis K. Meacham. A legendary figure in Chattanooga and author of three Napoleonic-era maritime novels about the Bombay Marine of the East India Company, Judge Meacham is credited with giving Meacham his interest in history, literature, and politics.
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