World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
Jon Meacham Quotes
Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.
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| Birth: | 20th May, 1969 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Biographer, Editor, Historian, Journalist |
About
Jon Ellis Meacham was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. He is an American editor, historian, biographer and journalist. He is a contributing writer to The New York Times Book Review, a contributing editor to Time magazine, and a former Editor-in-Chief of Newsweek. He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. He studied at Sewanee: The University of the South. He has written several books include: Franklin and Winston, American Gospel, Beyond Bin Laden, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, Thomas Jefferson: President and Philosopher, Destiny and Power, and The Soul of America.
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