Stephen Schlesinger
Stephen Schlesinger is the author of three books, including "Act of Creation: The Founding of The United Nations," which won the 2004 Harry S. Truman Book Award. He is a senior fellow at the Century Foundation in New York City and the former director of the World Policy Institute at the New School (1997-2006) and former publisher of the quarterly magazine, The World Policy Journal. In the 1970s, he edited and published The New Democrat Magazine; was a speechwriter for the Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern; and later was the weekly columnist for The Boston Globe's "The L't'ry Life." He wrote, with Stephen Kinzer, "Bitter Fruit," a book about the 1954 CIA coup in Guatemala.
Thereafter, he spent four years as a staff writer at Time Magazine. For 12 years, he served as New York State Governor Mario Cuomo's speechwriter and foreign policy adviser. In the mid 1990s, Schlesinger worked at the United Nations at Habitat, the agency dealing with cities.
Schlesinger received his B.A. from Harvard University, a certificate of study from Cambridge University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He lives in New York City.
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- • December 14, 2022
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- • October 11, 2022
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- • June 24, 2021
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- • April 11, 2021
- Categories: Human Rights, US Foreign Relations, WORLDVIEWS
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- • January 3, 2021
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- • December 16, 2020
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- • September 14, 2020
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- • June 24, 2020
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- • May 6, 2020
- Categories: Child Soldiers, Covid-19, Secretary-General, Security Council, US-UN Relations