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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 …
Review of: Voices of History: Speeches that Changed the World by Simon Sebag Montefiore. Most speechwriters would likely not know the name Mettius Pompusianus, but perhaps they should. Mettius was one …
By the time he wrote his novel, Chronicles of Doodah, George Lee Walker was one disillusioned speechwriter. Having worked for Michigan Governors George Romney and William Milliken, President Gerald Ford, Ford …
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 …
In the days when former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was churning out books under his name just about every year, some people wondered how he could write so fast. “Ha. …
Review of The Luckiest Man: Life with John McCain by Mark Salter – Simon & Schuster, 2020 “Our identities and sense of worth are not circumscribed but are enlarged by serving good …