Peter Robinson served as speechwriter to Vice President Bush and as special assistant and speechwriter to President Reagan, writing the historic Berlin Wall address ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"). A fellow at the Hoover Institution, Robinson hosts the PBS television program Uncommon Knowledge. He is the author of the business bestseller Snapshots from Hell: The Making of an MBA and a senior director of the White House Writers Group. Robinson lives in Northern California with his wife and their four children.