Peter Robinson

Hilda and Greg Curran Fellow

Biography

Peter M. Robinson is the Hilda and Greg Curran Fellow at the Civitas Institute and the Murdoch Distinguished Policy Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Robinson writes about business and politics and hosts the long-running video series program, Uncommon Knowledge™.

He is also the author of three books: How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life, It's My Party: A Republican's Messy Love Affair with the GOP, and the best-selling business book Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA.

Robinson spent six years in the White House, serving from 1982 to 1983 as chief speechwriter to Vice President George Bush and from 1983 to 1988 as special assistant and speechwriter to President Ronald Reagan. He has a B.A. in English from Dartmouth College, a B.A. in politics, philosophy, and economics from Oxford University.

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