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Under Meacham’s leadership Newsweek wonthe National Magazine Award for GeneralExcellence in 2002 for coverage of the September 11 attacks; and again in 2003 forcoverage of President Bush and the Iraq War. He is the author of the NYT best-sellersAmerican Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, andthe Making of a Nation and Franklin and Winston:An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship. Hismost recent book, American Lion: AndrewJackson in the White House, was published inNovember of 2008.

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