Cody Keenan, author of Grace and chief speechwriter to President Obama, answers One Question, can we rewrite the rules of leadership?

Cody Keenan rose from a campaign intern in Chicago to become chief speechwriter at the White House and Barack Obama’s post-presidential collaborator. Today, Keenan is a partner at leading speechwriting firm Fenway Strategies and teaches a popular course on political speechwriting at his alma mater, Northwestern University. His first book, Grace, was published in October 2022 and became an instant New York Times bestseller.

Cody joins Sarah to talk about what it means to lead today, how you keep the faith in your country when its leadership is failing, the importance of realism and idealism, and Grace, Sarah's book of the year, recounting an emotional rollercoaster of ten days in the White House in 2015.

A conversation not to be missed, that gives us all that little bit of Hope.

Grace is not readily available in the UK, yet, but you can purchase the hardback edition on Amazon.

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