Live From The Campaign Trail
This week Michael Cohen, professional speechwriter and senior research fellow at the New American Foundation, is joining us to discuss his new book on presidential campaign rhetoric Live From The Campaign Trail. How important are candidates' speechmaking styles vs their key campaign talking points? What have been the most important and compelling speeches of this race thus far? Why are so many of McCain's speeches so-- and there's really no other word for this-- bad? Michael's first post will be up shortly, and he'll flesh out the arguments and questions more thoroughly.
Along for the ride: former Gore speechwriter and West Wing contributor Eli Attie, Andrei Cherny, chief speechwriter for John Kerry in 2004 and author of The Candy Bombers, sociologist and political writer Todd Gitlin and Matt Dallek, Adjunct Professor of Government and International Affairs at Virginia Tech. Should be a great discussion. Join us!
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