Yay, and it’s not my bedtime :)
This is fun.
“Newsweek editor Jon Meacham’s biography of Andrew Jackson, American Lion, won the Pulitzer Prize for biography this week. Meacham, a Chattanooga native, is an alumnus of McCallie and the University of the South at Sewanee. His win of American literature’s highest distinction was a little surprising, because ever since it came out last year, we’ve been hearing complaints about the book from history scholars that it’s a shallow, cut-and-paste job that offers little analysis and little comprehension of the complexity of the first Tennessee president and his times.”
We know why Meacham got the prize, he’s one of the in crowd and they give each other these awards. It makes them all feel good and important.
I think they gave him the prize to add credibility to his upcoming book trashing Bush.