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“In the mid-1970s I began writing speeches for the Prince of Wales.” And thus begins a hilarious and fascinating section of journalist and author Byron Rogers’ superb 2009 memoir Me: The Authorized Biography. Rogers’ …
Last week I was writing a column on speechwriters’ behalf for a magazine for CEOs. (Oh yes, I’ll share that when it comes out.) I was at pains to explain …
About 40 years ago, I found myself sitting in a coffee shop, waiting to have a conversation with one of my students. We’d just finished a semester at the University …
Review of: The Will of a People: A Critical Anthology of Great African American Speeches, edited by Richard W. Leeman and Bernard K. Duffy (2012). “A great speech,” wrote the noted …
Professor Klaus Schwab, Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends, The past year was marked by the sudden onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic. Global public health faced severe threat and the world economy …
In his inaugural address, President Biden named a lot of massive problems the country has to tackle. COVID. Economic horrors. Social justice and racial equity—the explicit term, “white supremacy” appeared …
It’s unfair to hold Joe Biden to the oratorical standards of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, no matter how much the crisis circumstances incline us to make the comparisons. …
For many years I’ve shown audiences of speechwriters all over America and all over the world President Carter’s famous “Crisis of Confidence” speech, also known as his “malaise” speech, even …
Chief Justice Roberts, Vice President Harris, Speaker Pelosi, Leader Schumer, Leader McConnell, Vice President Pence, and my distinguished guests, my fellow Americans, this is America’s day. This is democracy’s day, …