Books by Jon Meacham
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
by Jon Meacham
🏆 Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
A definitive biography of the polarising seventh president of the United States who rose to power as a military commander and vastly expanded the power of the White House. Biographer Jon Meacham explores family papers to expose the human drama behind the political storms that marked Jackson's presidency.
Interviews where books by Jon Meacham were recommended
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
by Jason Roberts -
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
by Ilyon Woo -
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King: A Life
by Jonathan Eig -
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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
by Beverly Gage -
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
by Winfred Rembert -
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
by Les Payne & Tamara Payne
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographies
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographies
The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is awarded annually to “a distinguished and appropriately documented” biography by an author from or based in the United States. The authors of winning books receive $15,000, and join a starry pantheon of great American writers. Here, we’ve put together a summary of all the Pulitzer-winning biographies since the turn of the millennium.
