What executive editor and executive vice president at Random House wrote a biography of Andrew Jackson that will be made into a television miniseries for HBO?
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American Lion (book) American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House is a 2008 biography by Jon Meacham of Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States. It won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. In 2017 it will be made into a television miniseries for HBO, starring Sean Penn.
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Jon Meacham Jon Ellis Meacham ( ; born May 20, 1969) is executive editor and executive vice president at Random House. He is a contributing editor to "Time" magazine and editor-at-large of WNET, and a former editor-in-chief of "Newsweek". He won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House". Meacham also wrote "Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power" (2012).
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The Men Who Built America The Men Who Built America (also known as The Innovators: The Men Who Built America in some international markets) is a six-hour, four-part miniseries docudrama which was originally broadcast on the History Channel in the Fall of 2012, and on the History Channel UK in Spring of 2013. The series focuses on the lives of Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan and Henry Ford and how their industrial innovations and business empires revolutionized modern society. The series is directed by Patrick Reams and Ruán Magan and is narrated by Campbell Scott. It averaged 2.6 million total viewers (1.2 million adults 25–54 and 1 million adults 18–49) across 4 nights.
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List of awards and nominations received by Veep "Veep" is an American political satire comedy television series, that premiered on HBO on April 22, 2012. The series was created by Armando Iannucci as an adaptation of the British sitcom "The Thick of It".
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The Assets The Assets is an eight-part American drama television miniseries that aired on ABC in 2014. It is based on the book "Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed" by retired CIA officers Sandra Grimes and Jeanne Vertefeuille, and is produced by Morgan Hertzan, Rudy Bednar and Andrew Chapman. The pilot episode earned a 0.7 rating in the 18-to-49-year-old demographic, making "The Assets" the lowest rated drama premiere ever on one of the big three networks.
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John Moody (journalist) John Moody is Executive Editor and Executive VP of Fox News. He was previously Chief Executive Officer of NewsCore, the former internal wire service of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, and Senior Vice President, News Editorial for the Fox News Channel before that.
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List of Veep episodes "Veep" is an American political satire television comedy series created by Armando Iannucci, as a U.S. spin of the premise of his 2005 BBC series, "The Thick of It". The series premiered on HBO on April 22, 2012. Shot in a cinéma-vérité style, "Veep" stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Selina Meyer, the Vice President of the United States (or "Veep"), and later President of the United States, as she struggles to stay politically relevant.
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John Heilemann John Arthur Heilemann (born January 23, 1966) is an American journalist, National Affairs Editor for NBC News and MSNBC, and reporter at-large for "New York" magazine, where he mainly covers US politics.
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Truman (book) Truman is a 1992 biography of the 33rd President of the United States Harry S. Truman written by popular historian David McCullough. The book won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. The book was later made into a movie with the same name by HBO.
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Gabriel Sherman Gabriel Sherman is an American author. In 2014, he wrote a biography about Fox News Channel president Roger Ailes called "The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News – and Divided a Country", which debuted at #9 on The New York Times Bestseller list.
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Viceland (United States) Viceland (stylized as VICELAND; formerly History International and then H2) is an American thematic television channel owned by a joint venture majority-owned by A&E Networks (who owns a 10% stake in Vice Media, alongside a separate 10% stake owned directly by A&E's co-owner Disney).
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John Eisendrath John Eisendrath is an American television series producer and writer. He created and served as the Executive Producer and Showrunner for the series "Outlaw", "Playmakers", and currently serves as Executive Producer on NBC's "The Blacklist". He is married to television writer Jennifer Levin. He is a father of four, and lives in LA.
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Race for the White House Race for the White House is an American political television show that discusses various presidential election campaigns throughout United States history. It premiered on March 6, 2016, on CNN. The series is narrated by Kevin Spacey, well-known at the time of production for playing fictional President Frank Underwood in the US version of House of Cards.
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My Life (Bill Clinton autobiography) My Life is a 2004 autobiography written by former President of the United States Bill Clinton, who left office on January 20, 2001. It was released on June 22, 2004. The book was published by the Knopf Publishing Group and became a bestseller; the book sold in excess of 2,250,000 copies. Clinton had received what was at the time the world's highest book advance fee, $15 million (equivalent to $ million in 2016 ).
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The Making of the President, 1960 The Making of the President, 1960, written by journalist Theodore White and published by Atheneum Publishers in 1961, is a book that recounts and analyzes the 1960 election in which John F. Kennedy was elected President of the United States. The book won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and was the first in a series of books by White about American presidential elections. (The others are "The Making of the President, 1964" (1965), "The Making of the President, 1968" (1969), and
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Mary Matalin Mary Joe Matalin (born August 19, 1953) is an American political consultant well known for her work with the Republican Party. She has served under President Ronald Reagan, was campaign director for George H. W. Bush, was an assistant to President George W. Bush, and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney until 2003. Matalin has been chief editor of Threshold Editions, a conservative publishing imprint at Simon & Schuster, since March 2005. She is married to Democratic political consultant James Carville. She appears in the award-winning documentary film "" and also played herself, opposite her husband, James Carville, John Slattery, and Mary McCormack in the short lived HBO series "K Street".
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Bill Harris (television producer) William Harris is a New York City, United States, based television executive currently serving as Senior Vice-President of Production and Broadcast Operations for the A&E Television Networks, which includes cable services A&E, The History Channel, The Biography Channel, Crime and Investigation, History en Espanol, The Military History Channel and History International.
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David W. Zucker David W. Zucker is President of Television for Scott Free, and Executive Producer of the landmark series adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s classic “The Man in the High Castle” for Amazon, esteemed Civil War medical drama “Mercy Street” on PBS, the forthcoming first season of the Amazon half-hour action-comedy starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as “Jean-Claude Van Johnson,” the AMC anthological psychological thriller “The Terror,” “The Good Fight," the widely acclaimed CBS all-access spin-off of “The Good Wife,” and “Killing Reagan,” the fourth in the acclaimed National Geographic channel series of “Killing” telefilms (which include “Killing Jesus” and “Killing Kennedy,” both Emmy-nominated, plus the docudrama “Killing Lincoln”). During his tenure, Scott Free has produced a steady stream of highly acclaimed programs including the Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated, Peabody-winning drama, “The Good Wife,” which recently concluded its 7th and final season on CBS, as well as “Numb3rs,” which ran for six successful seasons on the same network. Notable long form programs include “Klondike” for Discovery, the Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated “The Pillars of the Earth” for Starz, “World Without End” for Reelz, Emmy-nominated “Into the Storm” for HBO, Emmy-nominated “The Andromeda Strain” and “Coma” for A&E, the Golden Globe-nominated “The Company” at TNT and a feature-length digital series for X-Box/Microsoft, “Halo: Nightfall.” Acclaimed non-fiction programs include “Crimes of the Century” and the Emmy-winning documentary special “Gettysburg” for History Channel. Previously, Zucker worked as a Story Editor on the CBS series, Judging Amy, wrote pilot scripts for CBS and ABC, as well as various stage plays, and served as VP of Drama Series for CBS in addition to VP of Drama Series & Current Programs at Warner Bros. TV.
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Forced into Glory Forced into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream (2000) is a book by Lerone Bennett, Jr., an African American scholar and historian, and executive editor of "Ebony Magazine" for decades. It criticizes President Abraham Lincoln and claims that his reputation as the "Great Emancipator" during the American Civil War is undeserved.
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The President Is Missing (novel) The President is Missing is an upcoming novel by former US President Bill Clinton and James Patterson set to be published in 2018. It will be Clinton's first novel. A television adaptation is being developed by Showtime.
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Jeph Loeb Joseph "Jeph" Loeb III ( ) is an American film and television writer, producer and comic book writer. Loeb was a producer/writer on the TV series "Smallville" and "Lost", writer for the films "Commando" and "Teen Wolf", and a writer and co-executive producer on the NBC TV show "Heroes" from its premiere in 2006 to November 2008. In 2010, Loeb became Executive Vice President of Marvel Television.
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a 2012 American dark fantasy action horror film directed by Timur Bekmambetov, based on the 2010 mashup novel of the same name. The novel's author, Seth Grahame-Smith, wrote the screenplay with Simon Kinberg. Benjamin Walker stars as the title character with supporting roles by Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Rufus Sewell, and Marton Csokas. The real-life figure Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States (1861–1865), is portrayed in the novel and the film as having a secret identity as a vampire hunter.