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John Avlon

Biography

John Avlon

John Avlon is the Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Beast and a CNN political analyst. He is the author of INDEPENDENT NATION and WINGNUTS, as well as an editor of the anthology DEADLINE ARTISTS: America’s Greatest Newspaper Columns. He was chief speechwriter for New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and won the National Society of Newspaper Columnists’ award for Best Online Column in 2012. He lives with his wife Margaret Hoover and their two children in New York City.

John Avlon

Books by John Avlon

Washington's Farewell: The Founding Father’s Warning to Future Generations
by John Avlon - History, Nonfiction

George Washington’s Farewell Address was a prophetic letter from a “parting friend” to his fellow citizens about the forces he feared could destroy our democracy: hyper-partisanship, excessive debt and foreign wars. Once celebrated as civic scripture, more widely reprinted than the Declaration of Independence, the Farewell Address is now almost forgotten. However, its message remains starkly relevant. In WASHINGTON’S FAREWELL, John Avlon offers a stunning portrait of our first president and his battle to save America from self-destruction.