
Jeff Shesol
@jeffshesol
Historian. @WestWingWriters. Author, Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War (@wwnorton, @mercuryrisingbk).
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Former presidential speechwriter Jeff Shesol discussed his role and offered political career advice in a forum hosted by the Student Association and GW College Democrats gwhatchet.com/2023/09/28/for…

Read Jeff Shesol on currents of America fascism: “the call to restore a fictional, monocultural past; the myth of white Christian victimization; the open antisemitism and the glorification of violence; the swooning for strongmen.” via @NYTimesbooks nytimes.com/2023/10/15/boo…

My take on a pair of new books by Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) and Rachel Maddow MSNBC, just posted by @NYTimes nytimes.com/2023/10/15/boo…

Our Jeff Shesol is in today’s The New York Times, reviewing Prequel by Rachel Maddow MSNBC and Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)—two books that explore the historical roots of the challenges facing American democracy today. Give it a read: nytimes.com/2023/10/15/boo…

The '60s at 60 Jordan conspicuously left out another Ohioan in that progression from the Wrights to Armstrong. Kunt Stoever Jeff Shesol


Today through 11/08, save 50% on the "Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court" audiobook by Jeff Shesol audiobooks.com/promotions/pro…





There is a way for Biden to win this debate, Jeff Shesol writes, “but he will have to override his instincts, defy the constraints and conventions of presidential debates and tell a more compelling story” about America’s future under Trump. Read: nyti.ms/3VGB5n1

In New York Times Opinion For President Biden to win the debate he will have to “tell a more compelling story — with clarity and force — about America’s future if Mr. Trump returns to power,” Jeff Shesol writes, a historian and former speechwriter for Bill Clinton. nyti.ms/4bmSVBn




Just spoke to Kerry Kennedy about her brother’s endorsement of Trump: “I’m outraged and disgusted by Bobby’s gaudy and obscene embrace of Donald Trump,” she said. “I think if he were alive today my father would have detested almost everything about Donald Trump.”

