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1) Strange fire
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
3) Herself
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
319 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The gay rights activist and writer chronicles his life and career, discussing speechwriting for Harvey Milk, combatting the AIDS epidemic, and writing thriller novels.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Barack Obama's chief speechwriter Cody Keenan shares an account of the ten most dramatic days of the presidency, when a hate-fueled massacre and looming Supreme Court decisions put the character of our country on the line, and a president's words could bring the nation together or tear it apart.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Latimer, a young conservative speechwriter, pens this hilarious yet poignant account of life inside the White House, as he laments a certain kind of principled conservatism that disappeared in the last years of the Bush presidency.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 204 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From 2007 to 2010 Swaim worked for Mark Sanford, South Carolina's governor, as a communications officer and speechwriter. Everyone knows this kind of politician: a charismatic maverick who goes up against the system and its ways, but thinks he doesn't have to live by the rules. Swaim tells the story of a band of believers who attach themselves to this sort of ambitious narcissist-- and what happens when it all comes crashing down.
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A funny and moving debut novel about life on Capitol Hill as seen through the eyes of Samantha Joyce, a twenty-six year old health care analyst to Ohio Junior Senator Robert Gary. Hard working, idealistic, extremely competent as well as neurotic and prone to daydreaming, Sammy, as she's known to her friends, has little time for anything, much less a relationship. But in the midst of lobbying and late-night dinners at the office, she meets Aaron Driver,...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The senior comic speechwriter and presidential advisor presents an account of his college education through his years working with Barack Obama, sharing behind-the-scenes anecdotes and his reflections on Obama's legacy in the age of Trump.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 556 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this gripping memoir, John F. Kennedy's closest advisor recounts in full for the first time his experience counseling Kennedy through the most dramatic moments in American history.... from the decision to go to the moon to the Cuban Missile Crisis, when JFK requested that the thirty-four-year-old Sorensen draft the key letter to Khrushchev at the most critical point of the world's first nuclear confrontation. After Kennedy was assassinated, Sorensen...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 581 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Evaluates the relationships between modern presidents and their speechwriters and offers insight into the agendas behind some of history's most famous addresses, in an account that traces the careers of such figures as Ted Sorensen, Peggy Noonan, and William Safire.
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