There are challenges and limitations to writing words for another’s voice, as Keenan outlines. Watch: Grace author Cody Keenan talks to Stephen Colbert Please review their details and accept them to load the content. We need your consent to load this YouTube content We use YouTube to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity.
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It will also be an interesting and accessible textbook for prospective wordsmiths learning how to find someone else’s voice and words. It demonstrates just how it takes a (mostly nameless and faceless) village working diligently behind the scenes to enable the one person at the top of the food-chain to look and sound good. This book lifts the mystique of Obama’s trademark polish to show how the speech ‘sausage’ is made. There are lots of juicy passages about the food in the White House, the food on Air Force One, and tips about where its best to sit in the Oval Office should you be called in to speak to the President (spoiler alert: it involves plumping cushions). It’s set largely in a dingy office well below the Oval Office, known as the Speechcave. It gives a high level, fly on the wall insight into the inner workings of the Obama Administration, how policies were made, how speeches came together and how communications and optics were handled. There are a couple of references to The West Wing television show and fans of the cult classic will devour this book. Grace is part presidential chronicle, part personal memoir, and part social history. The mass shooting sparked a debate about racism, guns and the Confederate flag at the same time that the US Supreme Court was due to rule on Obama’s defining healthcare policy and on marriage equality. A time when, in an act of racist terrorism, a white supremacist, self-radicalised 21 year old lone gunman, Dylann Roof, using a semi-automatic weapon he had bought with his birthday money, opened fire in a black Church in Charleston South Carolina killing nine African Americans. The ten days refers to an extraordinary period beginning Wednesday June 17th 2015. Keenan describes speechwriters as "idealists who saw being a White House speechwriter not as the pinnacle of a career but as a platform to help make a positive difference in people’s lives". The title may seem like hyperbole given what has gone on since that time, but it speaks to how seriously Keenan and his White House colleagues viewed their jobs and their contributions to the country. Presented by then RTÉ Washington Correspondent Caitríona Perry in 2017 Cody Keenan featured in a Nationwide special, The Irish in the White House, A particularly hectic period in June 2015 is what Keenan views as the 'Ten Days in the Battle for America’.
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"This week is too far-fetched for a full season of the West Wing".Īn exchange between Cody Keenan, President Obama's Chief Speechwriter, and his soon-to-be wife, the Deputy Director of Research, Kristen Bartoloni on the tenth day of the ten days described in a book that gives some insight into the fast-paced life inside the White House.
"Today is the most West Wing day of all the days". Caitríona Perry reviews the new political memoir Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America, by Cody Keenan.
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