Jeffrey Nussbaum: Well, the obsession began election night 2000. I was the kid speechwriter for Al Gore, less of a kid now. But we had three speeches, a victory, a concession, and, strangely ...

MSNBC's Chris Matthews has put together a new book about President John F. Kennedy that offers a revealing glimpse into how a young Kennedy's prep school experience helped mold him into one of the ...

His most famous quotes fill books, ... ” speech on June 26, 1963, when Kennedy spoke defiantly of the United States’ support for West Germany about two years after the construction of the ...

Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills (Simon & Schuster, $14). The granddaddy among contemporary books about prominent American speeches. Wills’ brilliant reading of Lincoln’s brief, eloquent ...

Sen. Robert F. Kennedy accepted today on behalf of the Kennedy Family the first copy of a book published by the Zionist Organization of America of all writings and speeches on Israel, Ziorism and ...

Kennedy’s address too took shape over several years, in his Senate speeches, in his campaign speeches and in several books. Neither speech shied away from controversy. Advertisement.

Like many Americans who were alive on Nov. 22, 1963, noted historian Michael J. Hogan remembers vividly the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. “Even though I was too young to vote for Kennedy ...

His inspirational style also shined through in another of his most famous speeches, the Peace Speech, delivered June 10, 1963, at American University in Washington, D.C., said David Talbot ...