Matthew Scully

Matthew Scully (born March 30, 1959, in Casper, Wyoming) is an American author, journalist, and speechwriter. He worked as a speechwriter in the 2000 presidential campaign, and served as a special assistant and senior speechwriter for President George W. Bush from January 2001 to August 2004. He has also written for vice-presidents Dan Quayle and Dick Cheney, and for the late Governor Robert P. Casey of Pennsylvania.

Scully is the author of Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy (2002), described by The New York Times as a "horrible, wonderful, important book," in large measure "because the author, an avowed conservative Republican and former speechwriter for George W. Bush, is an unexpected defender of the animals against the depredations of profit driven corporations, swaggering, gun-loving hunters, proponents of renewed 'harvesting' of whales and elephants and others who insist that all of nature is humanity's romper room, to play with, rearrange, and plunder at will. The Washington Post wrote that Dominion is "destined to become a classic defense of mercy."

Scully has served as literary editor of National Review magazine, and written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times.

Works

 * Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy, St. Martin's Griffin, 2003 (paperback), ISBN 0-312-31973-8