Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer. The author of The New York Times bestsellers “And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle,” “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power,” “American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House,” “Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship,” “Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush,” and “His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope.”  He holds the Carolyn T. and Robert M. Rogers Chair at Vanderbilt University and is a fellow of the Society of American Historians.