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Author:
Craig Fehrman
Publisher:
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Date:
October 20, 2020
From the early years of our nation's history, when George Washington wrote his humble yet powerful Farewell Address, to our current age, when Barack Obama delivered his moving speech on the fiftieth anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, America's presidents have upheld a tradition of exceptional writing. Now, for the first time, the greatest presidential writings in history are united in one treasury: the very best campaign orations, early autobiographies, presidential speeches, postpresidential reflections, and much more.
What The Reviewers Say
Craig Fehrman, author of the bestseller Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote has collected some of the best presidential speeches, memoirs, and other writings to create both a valuable reference and a thought-provoking journey through American history. The author chooses writings from nearly every president, allowing the reader to discover first-hand how the office and role of the Chief Executive has evolved.
Readers of Craig Fehrman’s slam-bang fantastic book Author in Chief have been expecting a volume like this follow-up, The Best Presidential Writing. That earlier volume was a rousing, fascinating tour of all the different kinds of writing US Presidents have produced over the country’s two centuries, telling the stories of the stories, the biographies of these works, both the well-known ones and the obscure ones. This follow-up gives readers the writings themselves.
Craig Fehrman’s anthology [...] arrives at either the best possible moment for such a book, or the worst.
