7/7 Milt Rosenberg Interviews Michael Gerson
In this episode, Milt interviews Michael Gerson.
Michael J. Gerson is the Roger Hertog senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. His work focuses on issues of global health and development, religion and foreign policy, and the democracy agenda. He is the author of Heroic Conservatism (HarperOne, October 2007), a columnist syndicated with the Washington Post Writers Group, and a contributor to Newsweek. He serves on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, the Holocaust Memorial Museum's Committee on Conscience, and on and the U.S. Agency for International Development's Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid.
Before joining the Council on Foreign Relations in July 2006, Mr. Gerson was a top aide to President George W. Bush, serving as assistant to the president for policy and strategic planning (February 2005-June 2006). Prior to that appointment, he worked in the White House as deputy assistant to the president and director of presidential speechwriting (January 2001 to July 2002) and as policy adviser and assistant to the president for speechwriting (July 2002 to February 2005).
Mr. Gerson joined Bush's presidential campaign in early 1999 as chief speechwriter and senior policy adviser. He was previously senior editor covering politics at U.S. News and World Report. Mr. Gerson was a speechwriter and policy adviser for Jack Kemp and a speechwriter for Senator Bob Dole during the 1996 presidential campaign. He has also served Senator Coats from Indiana as policy director. Mr. Gerson, a graduate of Wheaton College in Illinois, grew up in the St. Louis area and now lives with his wife and sons in Northern Virginia.
By Rob Blatt | Wed, 30 Jan 2008 at 3:41 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
6/7 Milt Rosenberg Interviews Rick Atkinson
In this episode, Milt interviews pulitzer prize winning author Rick Atkinson about Rick's book "The Day of Battle", writing stories from history, Dwight Eisenhower as a general, George Patton, why men go to war, Italy's liberation in World War II, what World War II would have been without Hitler and what it is like to live inside of your research for over a decade at a time.
Rick Atkinson is an American journalist and author whose contributions led to four Pulitzer Prizes. He earned his bachelor degree from East Carolina University in 1974 and a master of art degree from the University of Chicago in 1976. His first reporting job was at the The Morning Sun in Pittsburg, Kansas
He started working at the Kansas City Times in 1977. He won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for articles including a series on the West Point Class of 1966. He also contributed to the Times overall effort which won it another Pulitzer Prize the same year for the coverage of the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse.
In 1983 he worked for The Washington Post where he covered the Pentagon and the 1984 Presidential election and was national editor for two years. He went on book leave in 1988 to finish The Long Gray Line, which he had begun reporting on in Kansas City. He returned to the Post in 1989 and was the paper's lead reporter in the 1991 Gulf War. He went on leave again to finish a book about the war Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War.
In 1993 he returned to the Post as its Berlin bureau covering conflicts in Bosnia and Somalia. The Post won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for public service for a series conceived by Atkinson on shootings by the District of Columbia police department. He personally won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for history for his book An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943.
Atkinson served as the Omar N. Bradley Chair of Strategic Leadership at the US Army War College and Dickinson College in 2004 and 2005. Atkinson's book In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat is about the Iraq War where he was embedded with the 101st Airborne Division (United States) for two months and had extensive contact with David Petraeus.
By Rob Blatt | Wed, 23 Jan 2008 at 12:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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By Rob Blatt | Tue, 22 Jan 2008 at 9:20 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
5/7 Milt Rosenberg Interviews John Ferling
In this episode, Milt interviews John Ferling about John's book "Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence", George Washington, why nations go to war, the battle of Bunker Hill's impact on the war, changes to the American army personnel during the course of the war and what has gone wrong with our connection to American history.
John Ferling, professor emeritus at the University of West Georgia, has written on topics ranging from warfare in colonial America to the lives of the Founders. The American Revolution, however, is his real passion. He is author of the award-winning A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic (2003), biographies of George Washington and John Adams, and a work on Loyalists during the Revolution. He is also author of Adams vs. Jefferson (2004), a history of the pivotal election of 1800.
By Rob Blatt | Wed, 16 Jan 2008 at 12:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
4/7 Milt Rosenberg Interviews James Piereson
In this episode, Milt interviews author James Pierson. Milt and James speak about James' new book "Camelot and the Cultural Revolution", what the repercussions would have been if Lee Harvey Oswald had missed in Dallas, liberalism before and after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the atmosphere of Dallas in 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald's background, and the record "Camelot".
James Piereson is a Senior Fellow and Director of Manhattan Institute's Center for the American University and president of the William E. Simon Foundation. Mr. Piereson's research focuses on the importance of the classical liberal education and intellectual pluralism. In his recent Weekly Standard article "The Left University", Mr. Piereson outlined his vision for the American university that is neither liberal nor conservative but one which encourages and tolerates a range of ideas on important subjects.
Before joining the Manhattan Institute, Mr. Piereson was executive director and trustee of the John M. Olin Foundation (1985-2005, when, following longstanding plans, the foundation closed its doors). In addition, he served on the Political Science faculties of several prominent universities, including Iowa State University (1974), Indiana University (1975), and the University of Pennsylvania (1976-82), where he taught courses in the field of United States government and political theory.
He is the author (with J. Sullivan and G. Marcus) of Political Tolerance and American Democracy (University of Chicago Press, 1982). Mr. Piereson has also published articles and reviews in numerous journals, including Commentary, The American Political Science Review, The Public Interest, the Journal of Politics, Philanthropy, The American Spectator, The Wall Street Journal, and The Weekly Standard.
Mr. Piereson serves on the boards of: Manhattan Institute, the Center for Individual Rights, The Philanthropy Roundtable (Chairman, 1995-99), and Donors Trust. He is a past member (1999-2005) of the Board of Overseers of The Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Mr. Piereson is also a member of the Executive Advisory Committee of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester and also a member of the Board of Visitors of the School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. He is a trustee of the William E. Simon Foundation.
Mr. Piereson earned a B.A. degree (1968) and a Ph.D. degree (1973) in political science from Michigan State University.
RELATED TEXT: Saluting James Piereson
By Rob Blatt | Wed, 9 Jan 2008 at 12:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
3/7 Milt Rosenberg Interviews Sally Bedell Smith
This week, Milt interviews author Sally Bedell Smith. They discuss her book" For Love of Politics; Bill and Hillary Clinton: The White House Years".
Sally Bedell Smith is the author of the bestselling biographies of William S. Paley, Pamela Harriman, Diana, Princess of Wales, John and Jacqueline Kennedy and Bill and Hillary Clinton.
A contributing editor at Vanity Fair since 1996, she previously worked at Time and The New York Times, where she was a cultural news reporter. She was awarded a Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for magazine reporting in 1982 and was a fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center in 1986.
Her official website can be found at sallybedellsmith.com
By Rob Blatt | Wed, 2 Jan 2008 at 12:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
2/7 Milt Rosenberg Interviews James Gaines
This week, Milt interviews James Gaines to discuss his book "For Liberty and Glory", the relationship between Washington and Lafayette, comparing the American revolution to Waterloo, the Thomas Jefferson quote "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants", the French revolution, modern day France, Sarkozy's non-ideological pragmatism and Pierre Beaumarchais.
James R. Gaines is an American journalist, author, and international publishing consultant who is best known as a magazine editor. He was the chief editor of Time, Life, and People magazines between 1987 and 1996 and subsequently the corporate editor of Time Inc.
Gaines is a graduate of the McBurney School in New York City and the University of Michigan. His career in magazine journalism started at the Saturday Review, followed by Newsweek and People, where he was named managing editor in 1987. He was both managing editor and publisher of Life, the first time that one person held both the chief editorial and publishing jobs at a Time-Life magazine. His reinvention of Life as a weekly newsmagazine for the first Persian Gulf War won widespread acclaim and led to his appointment to the editorship of Time, making him the first person ever to run three Time-Life magazines. All three won important journalistic awards during his tenure and undertook important extensions: a television show and books program at People, network specials and custom publishing at Life, and at Time a classroom edition called Time for Kids and Time Online. In his first assignment as a publishing consultant, he founded a brand extension in the men's luxury category for American Express Publishing titled Travel & Leisure/Golf. Based in Paris, he has since advised publishers in Europe and the Middle East as well as the United States.
His books are works of cultural history, including Wit's End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977); Evening in the Palace of Reason, which explored the conflict between faith and reason through a fateful meeting between Johann Sebastian Bach and Frederick the Great (HarperCollins, 2005); and For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions (W. W. Norton, 2007).
Gaines is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Historical Association, the Society of Eighteenth Century Historians, the Overseas Press Club, and the International Federation of the Periodical Press.
You can find out more about James Gaines at his official website jamesrgaines.com/.
By Rob Blatt | Wed, 26 Dec 2007 at 12:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
1/7 Milt Rosenberg Interviews Steven Pinkner
This week, Milt interviews Steven Pinkner about Steven's new book "The Stuff of Thought", D.L. Austin's assertion that double positives do not make a negative yet double negatives make a positive, the use of double intensifiers, both sexual and non-sexual innuendo, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, the content of human nature in Pinkner's works, political rhetoric and Bill Clinton's use of the word "is", vocabularistic differentiation, taboo words and baby names.
Steven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Until 2003, he taught in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. He conducts research on language and cognition, writes for publications such as the New York Times, Time, and Slate, and is the author of seven books, including The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, Words and Rules, The Blank Slate, and most recently, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature.
By Rob Blatt | Wed, 19 Dec 2007 at 12:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
About Milt Rosenberg
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".
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By Rob Blatt | Wed, 12 Dec 2007 at 12:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
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