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Mandy Grunwald (born c. 1958)[1] is an American professional political consultant and media advisor for the Democratic Party.
She is the daughter of the late Henry Grunwald, former editor-in-chief of Time magazine and the sister of the author Lisa Grunwald. She grew up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and on Martha's Vineyard.[1] She attended the Nightingale-Bamford School in New York,[1] and then graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University.[2]
Upon graduation she worked at the Sawyer-Miller Group in New York.[1] Gaining prominence through her work on the successful 1992 Bill Clinton presidential campaign, in which she was director of advertising,[2] made television appearances defending Bill Clinton,[1] and helped produce The Man From Hope, the biographical film that was the centerpiece of the 1992 Democratic National Convention.[3] The Washington Post subsequently identified her as one of the key members of "Hillaryland", Hillary Rodham Clinton's closest advisors beginning with her First Lady days.[4] Grunwald's position as a White House advisor faded after 1995, when she and others were supplanted by Dick Morris.[1]
Mandy Grunwald subsequently became president of Grunwald Communications in Washington, D.C.[2] She served as media consultant for three successful Senate campaigns for Daniel Patrick Moynihan[2] (presumably 1982, 1988, and 1994) as well as for the Ruth Messinger's losing effort in the 1997 New York City mayoral election.[2] In 1999 she served as a broker across the frosty relations between the retiring Moynihan and Hillary Clinton, who would successfully gain his seat in the 2000 New York senatorial election.[1][5] In 2004 she worked for the senatorial campaign of Ken Salazar in Colorado and gubernatorial effort of John Lynch in New Hampshire, both of whom won.[6] She then worked for Gifford Miller's poorly-finishing Democratic primary campaign in New York City's 2005 mayoral race.[6]
She was the head of campaign media relations for the 2008 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign.[3]
In 1997 Grunwald married journalist and future Plame affair figure Matthew Cooper.[2] They separated in late 2007.[7] They have a son, born in 1999.[1]
She is believed to have been the inspiration for the character "Daisy Green" in the roman à clef of the 1992 presidential campaign, Primary Colors, published by "Anonymous" in 1996.[8] Moreover, before Joe Klein was revealed to be the creator, Mandy Grunwald and her novelist sister Lisa Grunwald were among the authorial suspects.[8] In the 1998 film Primary Colors, the character based on her was portrayed by Maura Tierney.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Elisabeth Bumiller (1999-07-20). "Public Lives: A Top Adviser to a Much-Advised First Lady". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9900E7DD1E3FF933A15754C0A96F958260. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
- ^ a b c d e f "WEDDINGS; Mandy Grunwald, Matthew Cooper". The New York Times. 1997-11-30. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E6D8163AF933A05752C1A961958260. Retrieved 2007-10-23.
- ^ a b Mark Leibovich (2007-10-26). "A No-Nonsense Style That Was Honed as Advocate and First Lady". The New York Times.
- ^ Romano, Lois (2007-06-21). "Gatekeepers of Hillaryland". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/20/AR2007062002567.html. Retrieved 2007-07-16.
- ^ Gerth, Jeff; Don Van Natta, Jr. (2007). Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-01742-6., pp. 208-209.
- ^ a b Greg Sargent (2004-11-22). "The Clinton Factor: Can Bill and Hillary’s former media guru help Gifford Miller beat Bloomberg?". New York. http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/columns/intelligencer/10429/. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
- ^ Argetsinger, Amy; Roberts, Roxanne (2008-04-30). "Straight From the Heartthrob". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043000841.html. Retrieved 2010-05-12.
- ^ a b Todd S. Purdum (1996-02-01). "The Author Could Not Be Reached for Comment". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A04E3DD1739F932A35751C0A960958260. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
Categories:- Living people
- 1950s births
- People from Manhattan
- People from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
- Harvard University alumni
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