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[[Image:Peggy.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Peggy Noonan]] '''Peggy Noonan''' (born Margaret Ellen Noonan on September 7, 1950, in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York]]) is a columnist for The [[Wall Street Journal]] and best selling [[author]] of eight [[book]]s mostly on [[politics]] and [[religion]]. Her columns have also appeared in [[Forbes]], [[Time]], [[Newsweek]], the [[Washington Post]], [[Wall Street Journal]] and the [[New York Times]]. <ref>[http://www.peggynoonan.com/biography.php PeggyNoonan.com: Biography]</ref>
Noonan holds honorary doctorates from Adelphi University, St. John Fisher College, [[Miami University]], and her alma mater, Fairleigh Dickinson University. After serving as a producer for [[CBS News]], she worked as a speech writer for [[President]] [[Ronald Reagan]]'s [[administration]]. She wrote Reagan's famous 1986 speech after the [[Space]] Shuttle Challenger disaster. During the 1988 Presidential Election she also wrote memorable phrases for then-[[Vice President of the United States of America|Vice President]] [[George H. W. Bush]] such as "a kinder, gentler nation" and "a thousand points of light."
In 2008 she criticized [[John McCain]]'s choice of [[Sarah Palin]] for vice president. In an opinion piece, she railed against Palin as too inexperienced.
==Books==
*''What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era'' (1990)
*''Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness'' (1994)
*''Simply Speaking: How to Communicate Your Ideas With Style, Substance, and Clarity'' (1998)
*''Character Above All'' (1999)
*''The Case Against [[Hillary Clinton]]'' (2000)
*''When Character Was King: A Story of [[Ronald Reagan]]'' (2001)
*''A Heart, A Cross And A Flag'' (2003)
*''John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father'' (2005)
*''Patriotic Grace: What it is and Why We Need it Now'' (2008)
==References==
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[[Category:The 100 Americans The Left Hates Most]]