wattenberg, bj
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>2000 Jan: </b>She becomes the Associate Producer of the PBS program <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Think-Tank with Ben Wattenberg" Wattenberg is a well-known right-wing commentator in the Rush Limbaugh mold.</span> [sic] Wattenberg is an associate of the American Enterprise Institute. This program is a parade of interviews with neocons and old Cold War warriors from her Center for Strategic and International Studies days.</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Joseph Ben Zion Wattenberg</b><sup id="cite_ref-nytobit_1-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_J.Wattenberg#cite_note-nytobit-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (August 26, 1933 – June 28, 2015), known as </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ben J. Wattenberg</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, was an </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">American</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> author, commentator and demographer</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. Associated with leading Democratic politicians in the 1960s and 1970s, he leaned increasingly conservative in his latter years.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
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margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_J.Wattenberg#Early_years" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early years</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_J.Wattenberg#Career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Career</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_J.Wattenberg#Personal_life" style="text-decoration: none; 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text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Filmography</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_J.Wattenberg#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_J.Wattenberg#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;" /><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_years">Early years</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ben_J.Wattenberg&action=edit§ion=1" title="Edit section: Early years" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wattenberg was born in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bronx" title="The Bronx" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">The Bronx</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> to Jewish parents, and went on to graduate from </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart_and_William_Smith_Colleges" title="Hobart and William Smith Colleges" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">Hobart College</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in 1955, majoring in English. From 1955 to 1957, he was in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Air_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="US Air Force" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">US Air Force</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, based in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio" title="San Antonio" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">San Antonio</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> He was an aide and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speechwriter" title="Speechwriter" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">speechwriter</a> to President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B.Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Lyndon B. Johnson</a> from 1966 to 1968, and served as an adviser to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey" title="Hubert Humphrey" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Hubert Humphrey</a>'s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,1970" title="United States Senate elections, 1970" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">1970 Senate race</a> and Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_M.Jackson" title="Henry M. Jackson" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Henry M. Jackson</a>'s</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> contest for the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,1972" title="United States presidential election, 1972" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">1972 Democratic presidential nomination</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and Democratic Party presidential primaries of 1976, and served on the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1972 Democratic National Convention" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">1972</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Democratic_National_Convention" title="1976 Democratic National Convention" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">1976 Democratic National Convention</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> platform committees.</span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Career">Career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ben_J.Wattenberg&action=edit§ion=2" title="Edit section: Career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><table class="plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation" style="background: rgb(251, 251, 251); margin: 0px 104.15px; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 10px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(242, 133, 0); border-image: initial;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image" style="border: none; padding: 2px 0px 2px 0.5em; text-align: center;"><div style="width: 52px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" width="50" height="39" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" /></font></a></div></td><td class="mbox-text" style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; width: 745.2px;"><span class="mbox-text-span"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This section <b>does not <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">cite</a> any <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">sources</a></b>. <span class="hide-when-compact">Please help improve this section by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Introduction_to_referencing_with_Wiki_Markup/1" title="Help:Introduction to referencing with Wiki Markup/1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">removed</a>.</span> <small><i>(June 2015)</i></small> <small class="hide-when-compact"><i>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Learn how and when to remove this template message</a>)</i></small></font></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Wattenberg came to national attention as co-author with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_M.Scammon" title="Richard M. Scammon" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Richard M. Scammon</a> of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_Majority" title="The Real Majority" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">The Real Majority</a></i>, the 1970 analysis believed to have provided the basis for the campaign strategies of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Richard Nixon</a> administration in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_elections,1970" title="United States elections, 1970" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">1970 congressional elections</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,1972" title="United States presidential election, 1972" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">1972 presidential election</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He was the host of a number of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Broadcasting_Service" class="mw-redirect" title="Public Broadcasting Service" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">PBS</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_specials" class="mw-redirect" title="Television specials" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">television specials</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, including </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Values Matter Most</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Grandchild Gap</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">America's Number One</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Next%3F" title="What Next?" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">What Next?</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i>The Stockholder Society</i>, </b><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A Third Choice</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (about the role of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_party(United_States)" title="Third party (United States)" style="background: none; text-decoration: none;">third parties</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in American politics), </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_on_Earth:The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Socialism" title="Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism</a></i>,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Democrats(TV_special)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Democrats (TV special) (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Democrats</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The First Measured Century</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. He hosted the weekly PBS television program, </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Tank(TV_series)" title="Think Tank (TV series)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, from 1994 to 2010,</span><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_J.Wattenberg#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and previously hosted PBS series </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In Search of the Real America</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ben Wattenberg At Large</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. In a </span><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/02/26/hating-hillary" style="background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" text-decoration="text-decoration" none="none" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data">New Yorker article</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> from 1996, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Henry Louis Gates, Jr., refers to Wattenberg's book "Values Matter Most" as "the book that prompted Bill Clinton’s infamous midnight-of-the-soul telephone call to the author".</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Wattenberg was a senior fellow at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute" title="American Enterprise Institute" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">American Enterprise Institute</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,D.C." title="Washington, D.C." style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Washington, D.C.</a> He was appointed to various committees and commissions by Presidents <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter" title="Jimmy Carter" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Carter</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Reagan</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H.W.Bush" title="George H. W. Bush" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">George H. W. Bush</a>, as well as by then-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the United States House of Representatives" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Speaker</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Foley" title="Tom Foley" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none;">Tom Foley</a>.</font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life">Personal life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ben_J.Wattenberg&action=edit§ion=3" title="Edit section: Personal life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wattenberg was the son of real-estate attorney Judah Wattenberg and Rachel Gutman Wattenberg, and he was the younger brother of actress <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Schull" title="Rebecca Schull" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Rebecca Schull</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_J.Wattenberg#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> He had four children, Ruth, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Wattenberg" title="Daniel Wattenberg" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Daniel</a> and Sarah with his first wife, the former Marna Hade who died in 1997, and Rachel with his second wife, Diane Abelman.<sup id="cite_ref-nytobit_1-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_J.Wattenberg#cite_note-nytobit-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> Wattenberg died on June 28, 2015 from complications following surgery.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_J.Wattenberg#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Bibliography">Bibliography</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ben_J.Wattenberg&action=edit§ion=4" title="Edit section: Bibliography" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" a="A" csvg="Csvg" http="http" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" ccircle="Ccircle" cx="cx" cy="cy" r="r" fill="fill" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>This U.S.A.</i>, 1965</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>The Real Majority: An Extraordinary Examination of the American Electorate</i>, 1970</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>The Real America</i>, 1974</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Against All Enemies: A Novel</i>, co-authored with Ervin S. 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He is also an adjunct professor at the DC-based <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_of_World_Politics" class="mw-redirect" title="Institute of World Politics" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Institute of World Politics</a> (since 1992) and a former fellow at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foreign_Policy_Institute" title="The Foreign Policy Institute" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies</a> (SAIS) (2009 – 2014).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Muravchik#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[1]</a></sup> He was formerly a fellow at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="George W. Bush Institute" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">George W. Bush Institute</a> (2012–2013), a resident scholar at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute" title="American Enterprise Institute" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American Enterprise Institute</a> (1987–2008), and a scholar in residence at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Institute_for_Near_East_Policy" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Institute for Near East Policy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Washington Institute for Near East Policy</a> (1985).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Muravchik#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[2]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Muravchik was one of the group of writers who moved away from the political left in the 1960s and 1970s and came to be called "neoconservatives.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">" In 1986, a <i>Wall Street Journal</i> editor wrote: "Joshua Muravchik may be the most cogent and careful of the neoconservative writers on foreign policy."<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Muravchik#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[3]</a></sup> Muravchik wrote in defense of neoconservative position when it became highly controversial during the years of George W. Bush’s presidency.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Muravchik#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[4]</a></sup></span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px;">Muravchik received an undergraduate degree from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_College_of_New_York" title="City College of New York" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">City College of New York</a> (1970) and a Ph.D in international relations from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_University" title="Georgetown University" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Georgetown University</a> (1984). He also received an honorary doctorate from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurel_Vlaicu_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Aurel Vlaicu University" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Aurel Vlaicu University</a> of Romania (2004).<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Muravchik#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[5]</a></sup> In 1998 he received a citation from the Polish parliament for his activities on behalf of Solidarity.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px;"><span id="YPSL" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Muravchik was National Chairman of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_People%27s_Socialist_League" title="Young People's Socialist League" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Young People's Socialist League</a> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(YPSL) from 1968 to 1973, and executive director of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority from 1977 to 1979. He was also an aide to the late Congressman </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G.O%27Hara" title="James G. O'Hara" style="background: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">James G. O'Hara</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (D-Mich.) in 1975 and to the late Senator </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Patrick_Moynihan" title="Daniel Patrick Moynihan" style="background: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Daniel Patrick Moynihan</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (D-NY) in 1977 and as a c</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">ampaign aide to the late Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_M.Jackson" title="Henry M. Jackson" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Henry M. Jackson</a> in his pursuit of the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Muravchik#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[6]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Muravchik serves on the board of trustees and the executive committee of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_House" title="Freedom House" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">Freedom House</a>.</span><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Muravchik#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[7]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> He was a member of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion from 2002 to 2009,</span><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Muravchik#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[8]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and a member of the Commission on Broadcasting to the People's Republic of China in 1992. He served on the Maryland State Advisory Committee of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Commission_on_Civil_Rights" title="United States Commission on Civil Rights" style="background: none; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128);">United States Commission on Civil Rights</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> from 1985 to 1997. He is a member of the editorial boards of </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Affairs" title="World Affairs" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">World Affairs</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Democracy" title="Journal of Democracy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Journal of Democracy</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journal_of_International_Security_Affairs" title="The Journal of International Security Affairs" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">The Journal of International Security Affairs</a></i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, as well as being an Advisory Editor at </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fathom</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px;">Muravchik argued in the Washington Post that the United States should attack Iran, stating: "Does this mean that our only option is war? Yes, although an air campaign targeting Iran's nuclear infrastructure would entail less need for boots on the ground than the war Obama is waging against the Islamic State, which poses far smaller a threat than Iran does."<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Muravchik#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[9]</a></sup></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif; line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Bibliography">Bibliography</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate; font-family: sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joshua_Muravchik&action=edit§ion=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Bibliography" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left: 0.25em; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">]</span></span></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px;">Muravchik is the author of 11 books, of which the most noted have been <i>Making David Into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel</i> (2014), <i>Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism</i> (2002), and <i>Exporting Democracy: Fulfilling America's Destiny</i> (1991). <i>Making David Into Goliath</i> was featured on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">C-SPAN</a> in July and August 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Muravchik#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[10]</a></sup> He has also authored hundreds of articles in magazines, journals, and newspapers touching on international politics, U.S. foreign policy, socialism, democracy, political ideology, the UN, and the Arab/Israel conflict.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Muravchik#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">[11]</a></sup></p><div class="notice" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:P_literature.svg" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;"><img alt="P literature.svg" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/P_literature.svg/30px-P_literature.svg.png" width="30" height="27" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/P_literature.svg/45px-P_literature.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/P_literature.svg/60px-P_literature.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="360" style="border: none; vertical-align: middle;" /></a> <i>This literature-related list is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lists#Incomplete_lists" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">incomplete</a>; you can help by <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joshua_Muravchik&action=edit" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background: none !important; padding: 0px !important;">expanding it</a></span></i>.</div><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20version%3D%221.1%22%20width%3D%225%22%20height%3D%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle%20cx%3D%222.5%22%20cy%3D%229.5%22%20r%3D%222.5%22%20fill%3D%22%2300528c%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E%0A"); color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 14px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i>Making David Into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel</i>, Encounter Books, 2014, 281 pages, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781594037351" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN 978-1-59403-735-1</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i>Liberal Oasis: The Truth About Israel</i>, Encounter Books, 2014, ebook, 66 pages,</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i>Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism</i>, Encounter Books, 2002, hardcover, 417 pages, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1893554457" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN 1-893554-45-7</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i>Trailblazers of the Arab Spring: Voices of Democracy in the Middle East</i>, Encounter Books, 2013, 420 pages, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781594036798" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN 978-1-59403-679-8</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i>Exporting Democracy: Fulfilling America's Destiny</i>, The AEI Press, 1991, hardcover, 262 pages, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/084473733X" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">ISBN 0-8447-3733-X</a></li></ul><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=related:current.org/2015/07/ben-wattenberg-longtime-host-of-public-tvs-think-tank-dies-at-81/+%22Think-Tank+with+Ben+Wattenberg%22&tbo=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjkmvnv8bDRAhVDyVQKHbdMAPkQHwhYMAk" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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