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Jon Meacham visits Chattanooga with Bush biography

This April 21, 2009, file photo shows historian and author Jon Meacham in New York.
This April 21, 2009, file photo shows historian and author Jon Meacham in New York. This April 21, 2009, file photo shows historian and author Jon Meacham in New York.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham will speak about and sign copies of his latest best-seller, “Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush,” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 9, at Barnes & Noble, 2100 Hamilton Place Blvd.

For this biography of the 41st president, Meacham drew on Bush’s personal diaries, those of wife Barbara and extraordinary access to the Bush family.

A Chattanooga native, Meacham attended St. Nicholas School, McCallie School and the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn., graduating summa cum laude in 1991 with a degree in English literature.

For more information, call 423-893-0186 or visit www.barnesandnoblecom.

The author’s website is www.jonmeacham.com.