Peter Robinson on the Art of Writing Ronald Reagan’s Speeches

16/05/2022 57 min Episodio 8
Peter Robinson on the Art of Writing Ronald Reagan’s Speeches

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Ronald Reagan was famously known as the Great Communicator. But who helped the Great Communicator communicate? One of them was Hoover Institution Research Fellow Peter Robinson, who wrote Reagan's “Tear Down This Wall” speech — one of the most famous speeches of the twentieth century. If you have ever been asked to deliver a speech in public (or even if you haven’t), listen to a master of the genre Peter Robinson speak of the humor, honesty, and honing involved in writing over 150 speeches for a U.S. President. 

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