Editing Bob Shrum (section)

{{Short description|American journalist}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Bob Shrum
| image              = Bob Shrum on the Campaign Tapes.jpg
| caption            = Shrum speaks to the [[United States Studies Centre]] during the [[2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries]]
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|1943|7|21}}
| birth_place        = [[Connellsville, Pennsylvania]], U.S.
| death_date         = 
| death_place        = 
| education          = [[Georgetown University]] {{small|([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])}}<br>[[Harvard University]] {{small|([[Juris Doctor|JD]])}}
| spouse             = {{marriage|Marylouise Oates|1988}}
}}
'''Robert M. "Bob" Shrum''' (born July 21, 1943) is the director of the [[USC Center for the Political Future|Center for the Political Future]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dornsife-center-for-political-future.usc.edu/staff/robert-m-shrum/|title=USC Center for the Political Future|website=dornsife-center-for-political-future.usc.edu|access-date=2019-11-20}}</ref> and the Carmen H. and Louis Warschaw Chair in Practical Politics at the [[University of Southern California]], where he is a professor of political science in the [[USC Dornsife|Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.]] He is a former American [[Political consulting|political consultant]], who has worked on numerous [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] campaigns, including as senior advisor to the [[John Kerry presidential campaign, 2004|Kerry-Edwards campaign]] in 2004 and to the [[Al Gore presidential campaign, 2000|Gore-Lieberman]] campaign in 2000. Shrum wrote the [[The Dream Shall Never Die|famous speech]] [[Ted Kennedy]] gave at the [[1980 Democratic National Convention]] conceding to and supporting President [[Jimmy Carter]]. He has been described as "the most sought-after consultant in the Democratic Party."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/05/kerry-s-consigliere/302942/|title=Kerry's Consigliere|last=Lizza|first=Ryan|work=The Atlantic|access-date=2018-01-29|language=en-US}}</ref> Shrum served as speechwriter to New York Mayor [[John Lindsay|John V. Lindsay]] from 1970 to 1971, speechwriter to Senator [[George McGovern]]'s [[George McGovern 1972 presidential campaign|1972 presidential campaign]] and speechwriter and press secretary to Senator [[Ted Kennedy|Edward M. Kennedy]] from 1980 to 1984 and political consultant until 2009.

Shrum's book, ''No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner'', was published in June 2007 by [[Simon & Schuster|Simon and Schuster]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/noexcuses00robe|title=No Excuses|date=2008-06-24|isbn=9780743296526|language=en|last1=Shrum|first1=Robert|publisher=Simon & Schuster }}</ref>