Teach @NorthwesternU, Work @FenwayStrat, Former Obama chief speechwriter. Author of GRACE: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America, out 10/4/22
Oct 4, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Pub Day! GRACE: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America is finally here! As someone who’s rarely happy with anything I write, I love this book. I hope you will too. And I want to share why I wrote it.
The book chronicles ten days in June 2015—a racist massacre in Charleston, heated debates about race, guns, and the Confederate flag, the fate of health care and marriage equality before the Supreme Court, and President Obama leading the country in a chorus of “Amazing Grace.”
Our President is having a cynical morning. So here's a story of the 10 most hopeful days I ever saw in politics, capped off 2 yrs ago today.
They began in the darkest way imaginable...a mass shooting in the basement of a Charleston church. But they unfolded in unexpected ways.