Sam Leith
Sam Leith is literary editor of the Spectator, and contributes regularly to a range of UK newspapers and websites. He is the author of Words Like Loaded Pistols: The Power of Rhetoric from the Iron Age to the Information Age.
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His greatest speeches were loaded with empathy.