Pulitzer Prize winning author of American Lion and Franklin and Winston, editor of Newsweek, and co-anchor of PBS's Need to Know, Jon Meacham was named “one of the most influential editors in the news magazine business” by The New York Times. A skilled raconteur and eloquent speaker, he understands important issues and events in all of their complexity and how they impact our lives.
Meacham is responsible for all day-to-day editorial operations of Newsweek and has written many cover stories. In May 2010, Meacham began co-anchoring PBS' Need To Know, a weekly primetime news and public affairs series covering the economy, the environment and energy, health, national security, and culture.
His New York Times bestseller, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Nov. '08), won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was cited as an “unlikely portrait of a not always admirable democrat, but a pivotal president, written with an agile prose that brings the Jackson saga to life.”
His bestseller, Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship, explored the fascinating relationship between the two leaders who piloted the free world to victory in World War II. TIME declared it “masterful,” and The Washington Post proclaimed it “a memorable achievement.”
His previous book, American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation, was also a New York Times bestseller. USA Today said it “provides an enlightening look at how the founding fathers discovered ways to tame but not extinguish the fires of faith.”
A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a “Global Leader for Tomorrow” of the World Economic Forum in Davos, he has appeared on such programs as The Charlie Rose Show, The Today Show, The O’Reilly Factor and The Colbert Report, and is a regular guest on Morning Joe. 
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