Peggy Noonan was a Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan from 1984 to 1986; in 1988 she was Chief Speechwriter to Vice President George Bush during his first campaign for the Presidency.

In 1989, she left Washington for her native New York, where she completed her first book, the bestseller "What I Saw at the Revolution --A Political Life in the Reagan Years" (Random House, 1990). Since that time, her journalism and essays have appeared in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Harpers, Forbes, Mirabella, Harpers Bazaar, and The Washington Monthly.

Noonan also published a second book, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness," (Random House, 1994.)