World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
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One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.
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| Birth: | 20th May, 1969 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Biographer, Editor, Historian, Journalist |
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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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