Ted Widmer

Brown University

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Director and librarian at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University and editor of the Library of America's two-volume American Speeches: Political Oratory from the Revolution to the Civil War; speechwriter for then-President Bill Clinton

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Political Party Conventions: What Are They For?

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