STEPHEN SCHLESINGER
Home: 500 W 111th St., Apt. 4A, NY, NY 10025
Email: scsje@aol.com
Website: www.StephenSchlesinger.com
Education:
Harvard University 1964
American History and Literature
BA, Cum Laude
Peterhouse, Cambridge University
l965, Cambridge, England
Certificate of Study
in European History
Harvard Law School l968
LLB Urban Law, JD
Professional Experience:
Fellow, The Century Foundation
2007-present
Wrote new introduction to John F.
Kennedy’s book, Why England Slept
Praeger, 2016
Co-editor 2013, The Letters of Arthur
Schlesinger Jr.
Random House,
2013
Co-editor 2007, Journals 1952-2000
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Penguin Press, 2007
Director, The World Policy Institute
1997–2006: managed $1.4
million annual budget (including
grants); supervised 25 Senior Fellows;
directed all public programming;
served as Publisher of The World Policy
Journal; inaugurated Graduate Program in
International Affairs, Fall 2001
New School University
Author, Act of Creation: The
Founding of the United Nations
Perseus/ Westview, 2003
Reissued by
Hachette/Basic Books
Special Advisor to Dr. Wally N’Dow,
Secretary-General of Habitat II
Sept. 1995- May 1997
United Nations
New York
Visiting Scholar, New York University Taub
Urban Research Ct. 1995-1997
Wagner School of
Public Service, NYU
Director For International Organizations,
New York State Department of Economic
Development, 1990-1995
Gov. Cuomo
Administration
Foreign Policy Advisor, speechwriter for
Governor Cuomo, 1983 to 1990; handled
international issues, visits of foreign leaders,
accompanied Gov. on 1987 USSR trip
Gov. Cuomo
Administration
Served as member of NDI international
election observer teams in Bulgaria (June
1990), Guatemala (October 1990),
and Paraguay (May 1993)
National Democratic
Institute, Washington DC
Co-Author
Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the US of
the US Coup in Guatemala
(with Stephen Kinzer)
Doubleday, 1982
Reissued by Harvard
University Press
The New York Post, June l978
to December l978
NY Post Editorial/
Political Writer
TIME Magazine 1974-1978
Staff Writer: Press &
Nation sections
The Boston Globe l973-l974
Weekly Columnist of
“The L’t’ry Life”
Author, The New Reformers on new
movements among women, blacks,
ethnics and unions
Published in 1975 by
Houghton Mifflen (Boston,Mass.)
Speechwriter for Sen.
McGovern’s campaign, 1972
McGovern
For Pres. campaign
The New Democrat 1969-72
Publisher/Editor
Founded and edited
monthly journal on
progressive politics
N.Y. State Urban
Development Corp., 1968
Legal advisor to
President, Ed Logue
Speechwriter for Sen.
McGovern’s campaign, 1972
McGovern
For Pres. campaign
Teaching Experience:
Adjunct Professor
School of International
and Public Affairs
Columbia University, 2011
Adjunct Professor in American
Politics
New School for Social
Research, 1976-77
Teaching Fellow in English Composition
Harvard University, l968
Legal Experience:
Summer Associate
Williams and Connelly
Washington, DC 1967
Legal Advisor to Ed Logue
President, New York State
Urban Development Corp.
1968-69
Awards:
National Press Club Certificate of Appreciation, 1973.
Finalist for the 1978 National Magazine Award for article,
“How Dulles Worked the Coup D’Etat”, in The Nation Magazine.
Bitter Fruit, Doubleday Inc.’s nominee to Pulitzer
Prize Awards, 1982; selected by The New York
Times as one of the “notable” books of l982.
Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations, winner
of the 2004 Harry S. Truman Book Award.
Received major reviews for four books in The Sunday New York Times Book Review – Bitter Fruit, written by Warren Hoge (1982), Act of Creation, by Amb. Richard Holbrooke (2003), Journals 1952-2000 Arthur Schlesinger Jr, written by Maureen Dowd (2007) and The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger Jr, written by George Packer (2013).
Certificate of Appreciation, The Center for Cryptologic History,
National Security Agency
Frederick Lewis Allen Room Scholar, NY Public Library 1979-81
Visiting Scholar, New York University, Wagner School of Public
Service, Taub Urban Research Center, 1995-97
Publications:
Special Editor, The Harvard Review (Harvard 1963-64);
Contributing writer to The Village Voice (1968-72);
Editor & Publisher of The New Democrat (1969-72); Weekly
columnist for The Boston Globe (1973-74); Staff writer for
Time Magazine (1974-1978); Chief Political correspondent for
The New York Post (1978); author of articles for such
publications as The New York Times Op-Ed Page, Vogue, New
York Magazine, Harper’s, Newsday Op-Ed Page, The Washington
Post Outlook Section, etc; author of The New Reformers
(Houghton Mifflen 1975), coauthor of Bitter Fruit
(Doubleday/Anchor 1982) over 100,000 copies sold, and author
of Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations
(Westview Press, 2004) on the 1945 Conference in San
Francisco; coeditor, Journals 1952-2000 Arthur Schlesinger
Jr.(Penguin, 2007); coeditor, The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger Jr
(Random House 2013); contributed chapters to Abuse Your
Illusions (New York: Disinformation Press, 2002), The Maze
of Fear: Security and Migration After 9/11 (Washington:
Social Science Research Council, 2004), Challenges of
Globalization: New Trends in International Politics and
Society (USA: Transaction Publishers, 2005), The Brilliant Art of
Peace: Lectures from the Kofi Annan Series (Washington: The
United States Institute of Peace, 2013), The Charter of The United
Nations (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014).
Memberships & Listings:
Council on Foreign Relations; Overseas Press Club; United
Nations Correspondents Association; Century Association;
PEN; Board of Governors, Roosevelt Institute; Selection
Committee, British Atlantic Fellowships, 1995, 1996;
Selection Committee, Voice of America Cowan Award 1998;
Author’s Guild; listed in “Contemporary Authors”, Wikipedia,
Dictionary of International Biography, Who’s Who In America,
Who’s Who In The World, Who’s Who In The East; Judge for
2002 Robert Kennedy Book Awards; served as Principal For
A Day at FLAGS High School in the Bronx, 4/19/02; Foreign
Policy Association Fellow, 2004-on; Roosevelt Fellow, 2007;
Member, Global Affairs Advisory Board, McKinnon Center,
Occidental College; UN Alliance of Civilizations, Global
Expert (2010-present); Honorary Chairperson, Frank Church
Institute, Boise State University; Member, Int’l Advisory Bd
of International Peace Institute; Member, Advisory Board of website
PassBlue.com
Television & Radio Appearances:
Commentator and expert analyst on CNN (4/82;
11/7/97; 6/19/98; 2/5/00; 1/28/01; CNN international
12/21/99); CNN En Espanol (10/15/02); The Today Show (4/82);
Fox Cable News Network(2/17/98 & 4/13/98 & 4/25/99 & 5/11/99
& 5/16/99 & 12/5/02 and 9/25/03) and Fox Ch. 5 Good Day
Street Talk 6/20/99 and Fox Chan.46 Bill O’Reilly Show
2/13/02; MSNBC, Joe Scarborough Show, 4/28/03; moderated C-
Span WPI Forums (12/12/98 & 11/4/02); KRON-TV San Francisco
(10/24/03); Japanese Television (Fuji)(8/20/98); Canadian
Broadcasting Company (CBC) Morning Show, 2/20/03; WebFN
Cable TV on 3/15/03; Book TV on C-Span2 (3/27& 6/28/04 &
11/4/07); Diplomatic License on CNN International, 4/04 &
8/26/05; C-Span Washington Journal 12/12/04; PBS documentary
on UN’s Founding “Workshop For Peace” 10/24/05; Ron Silver’s
documentary, “Broken Promises: The United Nations at
60” October, 2005; Global Connections (half-hour) TV
interview on UN 9/6/07; PressTV 2/20/09; numerous radio shows,
including National Public Radio, BBC, The Larry King Show and the
Financial News Network. See full additional listings for TV and
radio appearances 2016-2024 on StephenSchlesinger.com website
under “Events”.
Documentary Appearances:
GUATEMALA:
A Coup: Made in America, produced by Canadian TV series “Turning Points in History” (1999)
The CIA Declassified, on the 1954 coup in Guatemala, produced by the Discovery Channel (2014)
UNITED NATIONS:
The United Nations 75 Years On, production by China Global Television Network (CGTN), in English (Sept. 2020)
Cold War Code-Breaking, ZDF German Public Television, documentary on code breaking during the Cold War, including the US Army Signals operations at the 1945 UN Conference in San Francisco, in German (2019)
La Cour des Grands, How France joined the UN Security Council in 1945 – produced by French Channel 5 and O2B Films (in French) (2017)
Planet UN: The United Nations Confronting the Challenges of the 21st Century – a Swiss documentary (2008) produced by Kino Fur Morgen in English and French
Going Global With The UN, produced by Miller & Associates (2008)
America’s Senator, on Arthur Vandenberg at the SF Conference produced by International Pictures (2007)
A Workshop for Peace, http://www.snagfilms.com, www.snagfilms.com) produced by the UN’s Department of Public Information (2006)
Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60, narrated by Ron Silvers, produced by Peace River Company and Citizens United Foundation (2005)
Inside The Glass Building: Interviews with UN Secretaries-General – a Swiss documentary on the UN, produced by Kino Fur Morgen with English language version available at Films For The Humanities (2005)
In Search Of Peace: 50 Years of the United States in the United Nations — a Turner Broadcasting System documentary (produced on October 23, 1995)
PRESIDENT KENNEDY:
Kennedy, a six-hour documentary on JFK’s life and legacy, produced by Ashton Gleckman, Blackbird Pictures, Indianapolis, Indiana (2021) Release date TBD
1937: The Last Year of Innocence — a documentary on JFK’s travels in Europe in 1937, produced by joint French-German TV venture, Meinwerk Film GmbH, and filmed (May 2017), based on my introduction to reissued version of Kennedy’s first book, “Why England Slept.”
Four Died Trying, about the impact on America of the assassinations of John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr, produced by Libby Handros (October 2020) Release date 2024-25
MOVIE ACTOR:
A Measure of a Giant – A documentary produced by ITV France and filmed for Arte TV Channel, a joint German-French venture on the actor Charlton Heston’s transition from a liberal activist to conservative promotor of the NRA and other right-wing causes.
Nine appearances on C-Span – See full list on Refseek.com
Past Lectures:
Royce Carlton Lecture Agency, 1984-8;
University of Minnesota at Duluth; University of -7-
Wisconsin at Superior; University of Missouri at Kansas
City; Harvard; Columbia; New School; Occidental College;
Adelphi University; Fletcher School at Tufts; Cardozo Law
School; New York University; University of Virginia Law
School; Hunter College; The UN Secretary-General’s Lecture
Series, October 11, 2006 introduced by Kofi Annan (prior
speakers: Amartya Sen, Leon Botstein, Desmond Tutu, Joseph
Stiglitz, Jeffrey Sachs, Toni Morrison — available at
http://www.un.org/webcast/sg/lectureseries.html;
Bosie (Idaho)State University; Moscow State University.