About Milt Rosenberg

by Rob Blatt
Wed, 12 Dec 2007 at 12:00 PM

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Welcome to the New York Sun Podcast mini-series "Milt Rosenberg Interviews...". For our uninitiated listeners, we thought that a brief introduction might be needed.

For over thirty years-and still going strong-Milt Rosenberg has been doing interviews with the world's most important authors, journalists, politicians, and news makers. Past guests of note include Margaret Thatcher, David McCullough, Henry Kissinger, David Mamet, Colin Powell, John Updike, Yegor Gaidar, William Safire, P.D. James, Richard Posner, Phillip Roth, Robert Bork, Gary Becker, William Bennett, Charles Krauthammer, Norman Mailer, George Will, Jim Lehrer, Rich Lowry, and on and on--virtually a cast of thousands of interesting and significant people. It's no wonder Talkers Magazine cites him as the "Nation's leading author interviewer".

Milt is a professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago, where he has served as the director of the doctoral program in Social and Organizational Psychology. Prior to coming to Chicago, he taught at Yale, Ohio State University and Dartmouth College. For a brief period he served on the staff of the Naval War College and he has lectured at various other universities both in the United States and abroad. His degrees are from Brooklyn College (B.A.), University of Wisconsin (M.A.), and University of Michigan (Ph.D.).

Robert Parker, author of the Spenser novels and generally seen as the leading purveyor of "tough guy" detective fiction, sums it up nicely: "I have done 16 book tours in the U.S. and England (and one in Japan) since 1978. In that time I have talked with everyone who won't run away, about my books and about books in general, and Milton Rosenberg remains the exemplar of the species. He brings to the interview a genuine curiosity and seems to know quite a good deal about almost everything, and is thus able to place the book under discussion in broad context. At the same time, he has a grasp of the work under discussion so that he can illuminate it for the listener, (and occasionally for the author, though I am not pleased to admit that). He listens to an author, allowing ideas to flow where they will, producing a conversation rather than an interview, resulting in a satisfying evening for both author and audience. He is an engaging personality in his own right, and it would be a pleasure to listen to him without a guest, though I have always resented that his voice is deeper than mine. In a profession where one is thrilled to learn that a host's producer has read the flap copy, Milt Rosenberg is a salient triumph."

A prolific author of numerous articles, both in professional journals and political magazines, he has also authored or co-authored a number of books. Among these are: Attitude Organization and Change; Theories of Cognitive Consistency; Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy; Beyond Conflict and Containment: Critical Studies of Military and Foreign Policy; and Vietnam and the Silent Majority.

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