![]() Jon Meacham talked about his book American Lion: Andrew Jacksonin the White House ( Random House, November 1, 2008). With deep insights and an eminently readable narrative style, Jon Meacham delivers the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson (often called Americas. He is the author of Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship and American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation. ![]() Jon Meacham is the editor of Newsweek magazine. Following his remarks he responded to questions from the audience. Meacham contends that President Jackson, the founder of the Democractic party and American’s seventh president, was a man of many contradictions who was responsible for the removal of Indians from their land and alternately encouraged granting greater power to the electorate. A Pulitzer Prize winner written in the past decade, my expectations for this biography were high. ![]() Jon Meacham’s 2008 American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House was my final biography. ![]() The book recounts the presidential tenure of Andrew Jackson. The first biography of Andrew Jackson I read is also the oldest. T17:59:52-04:00 Jon Meacham talked about his book American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Random House, November 1, 2008). ![]()
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