FILE – President Barack Obama speaks at a service honoring the lifetime of Rev. Clementa Pinckney, one in every of 9 individuals killed within the taking pictures at Emanuel AME Church, in Charleston, S.C. on June 26, 2015. Cody Keenan, the White Home speechwriter who helped Obama work on his response to the Charleston church bloodbath, has a e book deal. Keenan’s memoir is known as “Grace.”
NEW YORK (AP) — The White Home speechwriter who helped President Barack Obama work on his response to the Charleston church bloodbath in June 2015 has a e book deal. Cody Keenan’s memoir is about across the time a white supremacist murdered 9 Black parishioners in South Carolina.
“Grace: A President, His Speechwriter, and Ten Days within the Battle for America” will probably be printed in Fall 2022, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books & Media introduced Tuesday.
Kennan will word that the Charleston tragedy was quickly adopted by different historic occasions. Inside days, protesters referred to as for the removing of the Accomplice flag that had lengthy flown on Statehouse grounds in Columbia, a requirement met that July. In the meantime, the Supreme Court docket introduced two historic selections, ruling that same-sex marriage was protected underneath the Structure and upholding a lot of Obama’s Inexpensive Care Act.
The e book’s title refers to a theme of Obama’s response to Charleston and to one of the emotional moments of his presidency: his singing of “Wonderful Grace” throughout his eulogy at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church for one of many victims, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney.
“‘Grace’ began with a string of tweets on the second anniversary of that week,” Keenan stated in an announcement issued by way of the Houghton Mifflin imprint Sugar23 Books.
