Margaret Hoover
Margaret Hoover on Modernizing the Republican Party
Margaret Hoover
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Host, PBS' 'Firing Line with Margaret Hoover'; Political Analyst and Contributor, CNN; Bestselling Author, American Individualism; President of American Unity Fund
Margaret Hoover brings a trusted conservative perspective to today’s most pressing political and cultural issues. She helps leaders understand polarization, public sentiment, and the evolving media landscape, offering clear, pragmatic insight on how these forces are shaping business, leadership, and decision-making in real time.
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Conservative political commentator, bestselling author, and gay rights activist Margaret Hoover is the host of PBS’s “Firing Line with Margaret Hoover,” a reboot of the longest-running public affairs show in television history. A CNN contributor, she has served in the White House under President George W. Bush, in the Department of Homeland Security, on Capitol Hill and on two presidential campaigns. She is the great-granddaughter of Herbert Hoover, the 31st U.S. President.
A gifted analyst and moderator, Hoover connects with a broad audience to amplify bipartisan solutions to the pressing challenges facing American businesses and individuals.
She is the bestselling author of American Individualism: How a New Generation of Conservatives Can Save the Republican Party, and her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Daily News, The Daily Beast, CNN.com, and FoxNews.com. She is the President of American Unity Fund – a political organization focused on achieving full freedom and equality for LGBT Americans. She serves on the boards of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, the Hoover Presidential Foundation, the Belgian American Educational Foundation, the Markle Foundation, and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
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A More Perfect Union: An Evening with Margaret Hoover & John Avlon
Center-right meets center-left. Margaret Hoover and John Avlon—PBS host and journalist, Republican and Democrat, husband and wife—take the stage together to model something the country is starved for: the ability to disagree agreeably, with good faith and good humor. Drawing on American history from Washington’s Farewell Address to Theodore Roosevelt’s “Man in the Arena,” they make the case that America has always been a story of imperfect people striving toward a more perfect union—and that the 80% of issues where we agree matters far more than the 20% where we don’t. Audiences walk away with a richer understanding of what unifying leadership has looked like throughout American history, a practical framework for finding common ground in their own organizations and communities, and something increasingly rare: genuine hope, grounded in evidence, that the center can hold.
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Principled Disagreement: The Key to Stronger Leadership and a Stronger Democracy
Margaret Hoover has spent her career at the intersection of conservative politics and civic renewal—as a White House staffer, a congressional aide, a Republican strategist and political commentator, a best-selling author, and host of the revived Firing Line on PBS. Drawing on her work interviewing the most consequential political figures of our time and her family’s own legacy of public service, Margaret makes the case for a conservatism rooted in principled ideas, not grievance, and for the kind of forward-looking politics that actually wins. Audiences leave with a sharper understanding of where the right has been, where it’s going, and how principled disagreement strengthens rather than weakens democracy.
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