MSNBC: Former Obama speechwriter tells family tale in new book
Former Obama speechwriter Adam Frankel joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book “The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing.”
Former Obama speechwriter Adam Frankel joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book “The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing.”
NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Adam Frankel about his book “The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing.”
At 25 years old, Adam Frankel learned that the man he called his dad was not his biological father, a secret his dad did not know. Frankel joins the 3rd hour of TODAY to discuss his journey of discovering his identity and his new book, “The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing.”
By Adam P. Frankel. This article appeared the Chicago Tribune. Sometime in the mid-1990s, I wrote a letter to a woman named Gertrude Trammell. I was 12 or 13 at the time and living in New York City. Trammell was roughly 90, a resident of Greenville, South Carolina, which, in my adolescent eyes, might as […]
By Adam Frankel. This article appeared in print in the February 28, 2011 issue of The New Yorker. On January 20th, the fiftieth anniversary of President Kennedy’s Inauguration, a group of fifteen staffers who had worked in the Kennedy White House held a reunion at a local D.C. steak house. One of them was a secretary […]
By Peter Nicholas. This article originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times. A president governs in prose, but every now and then some poetry slips through. Speaking in West Virginia after an explosion killed 29 coal miners, President Obama talked about the victims: “Most days they would emerge from the dark mine, squinting at the light. Most […]
By Jeffrey Toobin. This article originally appeared in print in the May 12, 2008 issue of The New Yorker. There was a long pause before Ted Sorensen answered the door the other day at his apartment, on Central Park West. In chinos and a tennis shirt, he still had the trim physique that all the New Frontiersmen […]