earth the board friendship 7 welcome to the miller center forum. i m barbara perry and i m the director of presidential studies at the miller center where i also co-chair with russell riley the presidential oral history program. it s great to have you with us today to join us for what i know will be a fascinating conversation with our guest jeffsell, and this is about his book called mercury rising, which is the story of john glenn john kennedy and the space race in the context of the cold war. jeff comes to us from the west wing riders group, which he founded as a speech writing business along with a strategic operation and this comes from his experience as a speechwriter for president clinton, and he did a number of landmark speeches for the 42nd president. he also has a background in history from brown university and was a rhodes scholar and so has a master s degree in history from oxford. his previous books are on fascinating. x in and of themselves one on franklin roosev
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