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Review of: Speaking on Climate: A Guide to Speechwriting for a Better Future by Rune Kier Nielsen (204 pages, published April 2025) In his comprehensive collection of life advice addressed to his son …
Review of: Behind Closed Doors: In the Room with Reagan & Nixon by Ken Khachigian (Post Hill Press, 496 pages, published July 2024) In his magisterial memoir, former White House speechwriter and …
Review of: The First Inauguration: George Washington and the Invention of the Republic by Stephen Howard Browne, (Penn State University Press, 2020). On April 30, 1789, General George Washington took his oath of …
“There are lots of books about speechwriting—but this is the first one in 800 years about how to write a parliamentary speech,” reads a line in the publicity material issued …
Review of Unmasking the Klansman: The Double Life of Asa and Forrest Carter, by Dan T. Carter. Athens GA: NewSouth Books, 2023. Sunday marked the fifty-first anniversary of the most famous and …
The first inkling that alighted on this male brain that women’s speeches had been hideously overlooked by innumerable speech anthologies over the decades and the centuries, came a couple of …
I don’t like books on rhetoric, generally. There are too damned many of them, for one thing. University of Richmond rhetoric prof Jerry Tarver donated his collection of “Elocution, Rhetoric …
Review of Cross Bronx: A Writing Lifeby Peter Quinn (Fordham Press; 2022; 256 pages) Peter Quinn’s facility with language has helped him build an enviable reputation as a novelist and historian of …
On a road trip with my wife last weekend, I listened to former President Obama Chief Speechwriter Cody Keenan’s new memoir, Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for …
Some bosses still give speechwriters titles—Communications Director, Deputy Press Secretary—aimed at disguising the fact that someone else writes their speeches. Admitting the truth is more acceptable these days than it …