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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. Image 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.”
Oct 3, 2022 5 tweets 5 min read
GRACE drops tomorrow (and I have lots of thoughts to come on why I wrote it), but the tour starts tonight! codykeenan.com/events Tonight, come hang with me and a friend from work at @NeueHouse NYC rsvp.neuehouse.com/inconversation…
Jun 26, 2017 37 tweets 6 min read
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.