Words, for Good and Ill

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 …

The Oratory of a People

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 …

The Luckiest Scribe

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 …

Of Poets and Speechwriters

Review of: Dispatches from the Republic of Letters – 50 Years of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, edited by Daniel Simon (release date: Oct 20, 2020) Over a long career as …