Jon Meacham: 2016 National Book Festival

Jon Meacham discusses "Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush" at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Jon Meacham is the executive editor and executive vice president at Random House. During his career, he has been editor-in-chief of Newsweek, a contributing editor to Time Magazine, editor-at-large of WNET and a commentator on politics, history, and religious faith in America. Meacham's book "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House" won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for biography. He has written for The New York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times Book Review and the Washington Post Book World. Meacham has written the best-selling book "American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers and the Making of a Nation" and edited "Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement," a collection of distinguished nonfiction about the midcentury struggle against Jim Crow. His most recent work is "Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush".
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