Suzanne Garment
Suzanne Garment | |
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Born | Suzanne Rose Bloom |
Nationality | American |
Other names | Suzanne Rose Garment Suzanne Weaver |
Spouse(s) | Paul Harold Weaver Leonard Garment [d. 2013] |
Children | 1 |
Suzanne Garment (née Bloom) is an American scholar, writer, editor and attorney.
Garment is best known for her book, Scandal: The Culture of Mistrust in American Politics, and for her work as a aide to Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan working to block the 1975 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 of the United Nations that "Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination."[1]
Education and career[]
Garment holds the A.B. from Radcliffe College, the M.A. from the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, the PhD in political science from Harvard University, the J.D. and a master of laws degree in taxation from Georgetown University
She has served as a visiting scholar at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University; special counsel to Richard Ravitch, New York Lieutenant Governor and as counsel to the Task Force on the State Budget Crisis, co-chaired by Ravitch and former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker. Before earning the J.D., she was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute;[2] associate editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal;[3] author of the "Capital Chronicle" column at the Wall Street Journal; and special assistant to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.[4] Garment has taught politics and public policy at Yale and Harvard Universities.[5] She was the executive editor of Jewish Ideas Daily.
Personal life[]
She was married to Leonard Garment, they have a daughter, Ann.[6]
Books[]
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Booknotes interview with Garment on Scandal, November 17, 1991, C-SPAN |
- Scandal: The Culture of Mistrust in American Politics (Anchor; 1991) [7][8][9][10]
- A Dangerous Place co-author with Daniel P. Moynihan (Little Brown)[11][12][13]
References[]
- ^ Troy, Gil (2013). "Moynihan's Moment: America's Fight Against Zionism as Racism". Oxford University Press.
- ^ "WASHINGTON TALK; History's Sliding Scale Of Ethics in the Capital". New York Times. 21 April 1989.
- ^ "Columnist Is Candidate For Reagan Press Post". New York Times. 4 January 1987. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
- ^ "With Words We Govern Men". 2013-02-27.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-01-22. Retrieved 2012-12-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Leonard Garment obituary". The Guardian. 23 July 2013. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
- ^ Brownstein, Ronald (29 September 1991). "Why We Don't Love Them Like We Used To : SCANDAL: The Culture of Mistrust in American Politics". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "Scandal, by Suzanne Garment".
- ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Scandal by Suzanne Garment, Author, Peter Osnos, Editor Crown Publishers $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8129-1942-4".
- ^ Yardley, Jonathan (29 September 1991). "Sensation-Mongering and the Real News". Washington Post.
- ^ Hoffman, Stanley. Daniel Moynihan: A Dangerous Man. Dissent (American magazine).
- ^ Whitaker, Mark T. (1 December 1978). A Complex Place. Harvard Crimson.
- ^ Kraner, Jane (3 May 1979). "Timely Griefs". New York Review of Books.
External links[]
- American academics
- Jewish American writers
- Living people
- Radcliffe College alumni
- Georgetown University Law Center alumni
- Alumni of the University of Sussex
- American editors