His biography American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. He has also authored the books Voices in Our Blood: America’s Best on the Civil Rights Movement, Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship, American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation, American Homer: Reflections on Shelby Foote and His Classic The Civil War: A Narrative, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, and Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush. Meacham co-hosted the PBS television series Need to Know and has frequently appeared on the TV series Morning Joe and Real Time with Bill Maher.