Crowd gathers to hear Pulitzer winner discuss history
Hundreds gathered to hear Jon Meacham speak during the Women’s Board of Wolfson Children’s Hospital’s Florida Forum 2019-2020 speaker series Jan. 22. Meacham is a presidential historian and public intellectual who gave the eulogies for both President George H. W. Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush. His 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 2009 Pulitzer Prize in biography. His current New York Times bestseller is “The Soul of America: The Battle for our Better Angels,” and he is currently at work on a biography of James and Dolley Madison.