Peggy Noonan
Peggy Noonan (born Margaret Ellen Noonan on September 7, 1950, in Brooklyn, New York) is a conservative columnist for The Wall Street Journal and best selling author of eight books mostly on politics and religion. Her columns have also appeared in Forbes, Time, Newsweek, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. [1]
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 George H. W. Bush such as "a kinder, gentler nation" and "a thousand points of light."
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)