Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History

Jeff Nussbaum

май 2022 г. · Macmillan Audio · Читает Jeff Nussbaum, Adam Gifford, Brian Bowles, Elisa Roth, Garrick Hagon, Glen McCready, Greg Lockett, James Lailey, Johnny Heller, Kathleen Chalfant, Kurt Kanazawa и Lance Blair

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"There may be no more important listen regarding the fate of the nation's democracy than this historical record."- AudioFile

This program is read by the author and full cast, includes actual audio clips from historical and political figures, and has actors narrating the entire undelivered speeches throughout.

A fascinating insight into notable speeches that were never delivered, showing what could have been if history had gone down a different path

For almost every delivered speech, there exists an undelivered opposite. These "second speeches" provide alternative histories of what could have been if not for schedule changes, changes of heart, or momentous turns of events.

In Undelivered, political speechwriter Jeff Nussbaum presents the most notable speeches the public never heard, from Dwight Eisenhower’s apology for a D-Day failure to Richard Nixon’s refusal to resign the presidency, and even Hillary Clinton’s acceptance for a 2016 victory—the latter never seen until now.

Examining the content of these speeches and the context of the historic moments that almost came to be, Nussbaum considers not only what they tell us about the past but also what they can inform us about our present.

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Jeff Nussbaum is a founding partner of West Wing Writers, the premier strategy and speechwriting shop in Washington, D.C. He was the head of speechwriting at the last three Democratic conventions and was Joe Biden's speechwriter on the first Obama-Biden campaign. A graduate of Brown University, he lives outside of D.C.