Jon Meacham 
“Finding Hope Through the Lessons of Yesterday”

Monday, September 19, 7 p.m.
Catherine Cassidy Gallagher Great Hall, Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center
University of Northern Iowa

Presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham is one of America's most prominent public intellectuals. With a depth of knowledge about politics, history, religion and current affairs, Meacham has the unique ability to bring historical context to the issues and events impacting our daily lives.

The author of several #1 New York Times bestsellers, Meacham has written acclaimed books about Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, George H.W. Bush and civil-rights icon John Lewis. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a fellow of the Society of American Historians, Meacham is a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University, where he holds the Rogers Chair in the American Presidency. His latest book, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle, will be published in the Fall of 2022.

During his lecture titled “Finding Hope Through the Lessons of Yesterday,” Meacham walks audiences through moments that have seemed intractable to offer lessons for leaders in how to endure and prevail when everything appears hopeless.

The Joy Cole Corning Distinguished Leadership Lecture Series, established in 2001 by alumna and former Iowa Lt. Governor Joy Cole Corning, brings to campus nationally and internationally renowned leaders in the arts, business, education, government and the judiciary. The series provides students with an understanding of what constitutes leadership across disciplines and helps them discover how people become leaders in their fields.

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