“The White House Writers Group have been fabulous partners from the start. Clark [Judge] took my stream of consciousness and molded it into a coherent narrative. Lucy [van Schaijik] tracked down and verified over 200 citations, among other tasks. They invested much more time in this publication than that for which they were compensated, which is a testament to the values they share.”

Paul Mango, author of Warp Speed: Inside the Operation that Beat COVID, the Critics and the Odds; HHS Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, July 2019- January 2021

In its thirty years in business, WHWG has written many books. Publication has been both private and commercial. Genres have ranged from policy books for major presidential candidates, to an innovative culture building exercise, to ground-breaking industrial and financial histories, to a blow-by-blow account of developing of a major public health initiative.

Examples:

Commercially published:

Warp Speed: Inside the Operation that Beat COVID, the Critics and the Odds, by Paul Mango – publication, Spring 2022

Link to purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Warp-Speed-Inside-Operation-Critics/dp/1645720543

Together with Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar, Paul Mango conceived, recruited a world-class public-private executive team, organized, won White House support, and led the effort that developed, tested without cutting corners, manufactured, distributed, and administered the original COVID vaccine within 11 months of the genetic code’s publication and saved many millions of lives worldwide. Of writing the book, Mr. Mango’s quote above is taken from the book’s acknowledgments, where he very graciously and generously describes the process.

Privately published:

Our Stories, by Marriott International — publication, 2006

Marriott International faced a daunting challenge. How in a time of rapid expansion could it maintain and extend its industry-leading culture of service to its many new properties?

Already supporting Marriott’s executive communications, White House Writers Group was asked to create a corporate book profiling stories of twenty-plus exemplary Marriott associates.

The employees in these stories ranged from a world-class chef in Cairo, to a mentally handicapped young man who testified to his love of his job, to a doorman in Atlanta who customarily greeted arriving sports teams in their uniforms.

The book was titled Our Stories. Marriott gave a copy to every employee worldwide, featured the stories on its website, and placed a copy in each of its guest rooms around the world.

Though we are no longer involved, the concept lives on. Here is its current online manifestation: https://stories.marriott.com