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Join us as Newsweek managing editor Jon Meacham discusses
religion, one of the most pervasive yet least understood forces in
American life. With reference to his best-selling book, American Gospel,
he will use the Founding Fathers’ insistence on religious liberty to
illuminate conflicts at work in our country as we approach the first
wide-open presidential election since 1952.
JON MEACHAM 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. In 2003 he published Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship, and in 2001 he 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 newest book, American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation,
was published in April 2006. He is now at work on a biography of Andrew
Jackson and his White House circle. He and his wife, Keith, the
executive director of the Harlem Day Charter School, live in New York
City with their two children.
Jon Meacham is the managing editor of Newsweek.
He arrived at the magazine as a writer in January 1995, became national
affairs editor in June of that year, and was named managing editor in
November 1998. He supervises the magazine's coverage of politics,
international affairs, and breaking news, and has written cover stories
on politics, religion, race, guns in America, and the death of Ronald
Reagan.