Flowers for Algernon Condition:Like New The Speechwriter brings you inside

The Speechwriter brings you inside the spin room of the modern politician in “a wry and eloquent memoir” ( The Wall Street Journal ) that is “the best book about politics I’ve read in years” ( GQ ) and “will become a classic” ( The Washington Post )

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upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town

their country has betrayed them

vox pop or press conference to the interview used as a basis for an in-depth profile

Flowers for Algernon Condition:Like New The Speechwriter brings you insideCharlie Gordon, a floor sweeper born with an unusually low IQ, has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that doctors hope will increase his intelligence a procedure that has been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon. All Charlie wants is to be smart and have friends, but the treatment turns him into a genius. Then Algernon begins to fade. What will become of Charlie?