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Remember when presidents spoke in complete sentences instead of 3 A. M. tweets? David Litt does. In his comic, coming-of-age memoir, he takes us back to the Obama years - and charts a path forward in the age of TrumpMore than any other presidency, Barack Obama's eight years in the White House were defined by young people - twenty-somethings who didn't have much experience in politics (or anything else, for that matter) , yet suddenly found themselves in the most high-stakes office building on earth. David Litt was one of those twenty-somethings. After graduating from college in 2008, he went straight to the Obama campaign. In 2011, he became one of the youngest White House speechwriters in history. Until leaving the White House in 2016, he wrote on topics from healthcare to climate change to criminal justice reform.
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In 2011, at 24 years old, David Litt was hired as a White House speechwriter. For the next four and a half years, he wrote speeches for President Obama. Along with remarks for policy addresses and political rallies, he was the lead writer on four White House Correspondents' Dinners, the so-called "State of the Union of jokes." His 2017 memoir, "Thanks, Obama: My Hopey Changey White House Years" was a New York Times bestseller. His writing has appeared in print and online for the New York Times, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, GQ, and The Onion, and he was the head writer for Funny Or Die DC through the 2018 midterm elections. David lives in Washington, DC with his wife, Jacqui, and their cats, Harry and Maisie.
