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.”
NPR: “The Survivors” Author On The Inheritance Of Holocaust Trauma
NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Adam Frankel about his book “The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing.”
Today Show: Man Learns Dad Is Not His Biological Father At 25 Years Old
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.”
‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson and me: An unexpected Black Sox tale
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 […]
Author, Author
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 […]
The brain behind Obama’s speeches
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 […]
Amanuensis
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 […]