University of the South Vice-Chancellor John McCardell will talk with Jon Meacham about Meacham’s new book, “Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush,” at 3 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 22, in Convocation Hall. It will be followed by a question-and-answer period with the audience, then a reception and book signing.
Meacham, a 1991 Sewanee graduate, is executive editor and executive vice president at Random House.
McCardell is a distinguished historian and respected national leader in liberal arts education. His academic specialty is United States history in the 19th century, with special emphasis on the South. A 1971 graduate of Washington and Lee University, he received his Ph.D. in history from Harvard in 1976. In addition to being Sewanee’s vice chancellor, McCardell is president emeritus of Middlebury College.
Meacham is a former editor-in-chief of Newsweek, a contributing editor to Time Magazine and a commentator on politics, history and religion. He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for his biography “American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House.” The event is free and open to the public.
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