He was promoted to Chief Speechwriter and the Deputy Director of Policy. CareerĪvlon started his career as the youngest speechwriter for Mayor Rudy Giuliani. He earned his BA from Yale University and an MBA from Columbia University. He is a childhood friend and schoolmate of Matthew Pottinger. He was educated at Milton Academy, an independent preparatory school in Milton, Massachusetts. He is of Greek descent, and his grandparents were immigrants. Early lifeĪvlon was born in 1973 to Dianne Alexander (née Phillips) and John Jeffrey Avlon, a lawyer and real estate executive with companies in Charleston, South Carolina, and New York City. It is a historical analysis of Lincoln's rebuilding the nation from the Civil War and how those efforts carried on past his assassination. His most recent book is Lincoln and the Fight for Peace. In January 2017, Avlon published Washington's Farewell: The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations, in which he highlights the history and content of President George Washington's parting treatise to the American people in the context of the contemporary political climate. He also wrote Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America (2010).

Avlon was previously a columnist and associate editor for The New York Sun and chief speechwriter for former Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani.Īvlon is the author of several books, including Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics (2004), which critically appraises both traditional American centrism and the more recent radical centrism.

He is a Senior Political Analyst and anchor at CNN and was the editor-in-chief and managing director of The Daily Beast from 2013 to 2018. John Phillips Avlon (born January 19, 1973) is an American journalist and political commentator. Author, columnist, political analyst, editor-in-chief

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