Today's guest is Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former editor of Newsweek Magazine. Born and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Jon Meacham grew up thinking he might be a lawyer or a politician. As a teenager, he was a voracious reader of any and every kind of book; a harbinger for what was to come. Soon after college he entered the world of newspapers and print journalism, as both a writer and editor. His talents were obvious and he soon began to climb the ranks of the editing world after joining Newsweek in 1995. He wrote his first book "Franklin and Winston" in 2003 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for "American Lion," his biography of President Andrew Jackson.