Meacham is a Pulitzer-prize winning presidential biographer and historian and a well recognized television commentator. His most recent book, co-authored with Grammy-winning singer Tim McGraw, is Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation. A Billboard review notes that the "book's eight chapters each speak to an American era - such as the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and the Civil Rights Movement...The tunes, often in support or protest of a movement, give shape to the way that music tells the history of America as much as wars, economic instability, and social agitation do."
