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Presidential Biographer Jon Meacham

Presidential biographer Jon Meacham talks with Marcia Franklin.

10/20/2016 | Rating TV-G

Scout Dialogue: Writers Collection

Presidential Biographer Jon Meacham

Special | 28m 50sVideo has Closed Captions

Presidential biographer Jon Meacham talks with Marcia Franklin.

Marcia Franklin talks with presidential biographer Jon Meacham about what kind of characteristics a successful president should embody, and the unique aspects of the 2016 presidential race. Meacham won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2009 for his book about President Andrew Jackson, "American Lion." He's also written books about Presidents Thomas Jefferson and George H.W. Bush.

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Scout Dialogue: Writers Collection is a local public television program presented by IdahoPTV

Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation, CPB, Friends of Idaho Public Television

Scout Dialogue: Writers Collection

Presidential Biographer Jon Meacham

Special | 28m 50sVideo has Closed Captions

Marcia Franklin talks with presidential biographer Jon Meacham about what kind of characteristics a successful president should embody, and the unique aspects of the 2016 presidential race. Meacham won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2009 for his book about President Andrew Jackson, "American Lion." He's also written books about Presidents Thomas Jefferson and George H.W. Bush.

10/20/2016 | Rating TV-G

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