Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham to speak in Boise

Jon Meacham

In the third of three lectures in Idaho in 2016 commemorating the Pulitzer Prize Centennial, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham, author of his latest presidential biography Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, will deliver the Idaho Humanities Council’s 20th Annual Distinguished Humanities Lecture in Boise. His topic will be “America Then and Now: What History Tells Us about the Future.”

Jon Meacham, presidential biographer and contributing editor at Time magazine, is a skilled storyteller about current affairs, and a concise analyst of how issues and events impact our lives. Meacham's books include Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, Franklin and Winston, American Gospel, and American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009.