![]() ![]() Bush, about whom Meacham is writing a book. “What we think in real time is not what we will think 20 years from now,” he said.Īn example of this is former President George H.W. The distance of time, he said, gives people the perspective to see more clearly the contributions of the past. “I have gone to the past to see if the problems of the present are unique, which they are not,” he said. ![]() ![]() ![]() He sees reporting and writing history as contiguous pursuits. Meacham is a former editor of Newsweek, and is currently executive vice president and executive editor at Random House Publishing. “Without defending him blindly, I think we are better off for having had Jefferson than if we had not had him.” “I see Jefferson for what he was – a working politician,” said Meacham, author of “Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power,” who believes people compartmentalize Jefferson as a philosopher, an educator, a slave-owner, a planter or as a foil for his political opponents. in Old Cabell Hall Auditorium.įree tickets are available at the Arts Box Office, located within the lobby of the Drama Building at 109 Culbreth Road.ĭon’t expect the lecture to be a complete lovefest. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham will deliver the Jefferson Scholars Foundation's inaugural Shadwell Lecture on University of Virginia founder Thomas Jefferson on Oct. ![]()
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