Liverpool is famed for many things – including The Beatles and its football team. But few would associate the city with one of the most famous political speeches in history.
Liverpool is famed for many things – including The Beatles and its football team. But few would associate the city with one of the most famous political speeches in history.
Yet tourism officials in the city have published the extraordinary claim that Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech was written at a city centre hotel.
The allegation has been made in a guide to a major art event entitled “Liverpool Discovers”, commissioned by amongst others, the city council.
In 2010 the journalist and historian Godfrey Hodgson foresaw, long before most others, the looming convulsions in US politics that took physical form in the shape of Donald Trump.He wrote of America’s
Godfrey Hodgson was a talented journalist and author
Godfrey Hodgson was a talented journalist and author
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In 1982 Godfrey Hodgson and I went on a visit to the US embassy in London so that they could show us what nice things cruise missiles were and how lucky we were to have them based in the UK. As part of it, David Gergen, President Ronald Reagan’s chief communications adviser and a respected political commentator, gave us a briefing.
Afterwards, Gergen brought out a copy of Godfrey’s book All Things to All Men: The False Promise of the Modern American Presidency from Franklin D Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan, published the previous year. He told us it was the best book written on the presidency and asked Godfrey to sign it.
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