%0 Journal Article %T JUDSON CHURCHILL WELLIVER, WORDSMITH %A Greg A. Phelps %A D. Gene Pace %J Essays in Economic & Business History %D 2006 %I The Economic & Business History Society %X Judson Churchill Welliver, the first full-lime speechwriter for an American president (Warren G. Harding), was both speechwriter and journalist, a Progressive Era writer who believed in the potential of American democracy and industrial strength, if properly regulated, to transform the world. Infused with progressive-minded economic imagery and enriched by his grasp of mythology, history, economics, politics, and literature, Welliver's writings reflected his times and shaped public opinion. %U http://www.ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php/journal/article/view/204