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'''Leonard Steinhorn''' is a professor of communication and affiliate professor of history at [[American University]], where he teaches politics, strategic communication, recent American history, and courses on the presidency.
'''Leonard Steinhorn''' is is an author, CBS News political analyst, and professor of communication and affiliate professor of history at American University. He teaches, writes and lectures on American politics and presidential elections; the 1960s in America; baby boomers; recent American history; and race relations in the United States.


==Career==
==Career==
Steinhorn is a [[Phi Beta Kappa Society|Phi Beta Kappa]] graduate of [[Vassar College]], where he received a bachelor's degree in history. He later received his master's degree in history from [[Johns Hopkins University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.american.edu/soc/faculty/lsteinh.cfm|title=Profile Leonard Steinhorn|website=www.american.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-09-24}}</ref> For several years, he worked as a speechwriter, [[press secretary]], and policy advisor for members of the [[United States Congress]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/leonard-steinhorn/|title=Leonard Steinhorn|access-date=2017-09-24|language=en}}</ref>
Steinhorn is a [[Phi Beta Kappa Society|Phi Beta Kappa]] graduate of [[Vassar College]], where he received a bachelor's degree in history. He later received his master's degree in history from [[Johns Hopkins University]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.american.edu/soc/faculty/lsteinh.cfm|title=Faculty Profile: Leonard Steinhorn {{!}} School of Communication {{!}} American University, Washington, DC|website=www.american.edu|access-date=2019-07-09}}</ref>


For several years in the 1980s, he worked as a speechwriter, [[press secretary]], and policy advisor for members of the [[United States Congress]], including former House Judiciary Committee Chair Peter W. Rodino and the future House Majority Leader, Congressman Steny Hoyer. He has served as a senior executive at strategic communication and media firms as well as leading non-profit organizations, including People for the American Way. <ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/steinhorn-leonard|title=Steinhorn, Leonard {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com|access-date=2019-07-09}}</ref>
In 1995, Steinhorn began teaching at [[American University]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] He was voted American University Faculty Member of the Year in 1999 and 2001 and he also was named Honors Professor of the Year in 2010.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.wusa9.com/news/politics/campaign-2016-u/leonard-steinhorn-american-university-professor/312455377|title=Leonard Steinhorn {{!}} American University Professor|last=TEGNA|work=WUSA|access-date=2017-09-24|language=en-US}}</ref> From 2002 to 2004, he was president of American University's chapter of [[Phi Beta Kappa Society|Phi Beta Kappa]]. He has served as the Director of the Public Communication Division,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/06/10/former-american-u-professor-charges-institution-age-discrimination-and-lack|title=Former American U. professor charges institution with age discrimination and lack of commitment to professional track|access-date=2017-09-24}}</ref> and is both a professor of communication and an affiliate professor of history.<ref name="multiple">{{cite web |url= http://www.american.edu/uploads/resume/steinhorn%20bio%202008%20December%20short.pdf |title=Steinhorn Biography |year=2008 |publisher=American University School of Communication |format=PDF |accessdate=6 November 2009 }}</ref>


In 1995, Steinhorn began teaching at [[American University]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] He was voted American University Faculty Member of the Year in 1999 and 2001 and he also was named Honors Professor of the Year in 2010. His courses on politics, presidential elections and recent American history have been featured on CNN, C-SPAN, NBC, FOX, ''USA Today, Agence France-Presse,'' and ''The Chronicle of Higher Education.'' From 2002 to 2004, he was president of American University's chapter of [[Phi Beta Kappa Society|Phi Beta Kappa]]. <ref name=":0" /> <ref name=":1" />
Since 2012 he has served as a political analyst for CBS News, and before that he was a political analyst for FOX-5 News in Washington, DC. <ref>American University. [http://www.american.edu/profiles/faculty/lsteinh.cfm "Profile Leonard Steinhorn"], Retrieved on November 8, 2015.</ref>


Since 2012 he has served as a political analyst for CBS News, covering politics and elections, and he appears regularly on WUSA9 TV News in Washington, DC. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/leonard-steinhorn/|title=Leonard Steinhorn|website=www.cbsnews.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-09}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/politics/leonard-steinhorn-american-university-professor/65-312455377|title=Leonard Steinhorn {{!}} American University Professor|website=WUSA|access-date=2019-07-09}}</ref> Before that he was a political analyst for FOX-5 News in Washington, DC. <ref name=":0" /> He also has appeared in numerous broadcast outlets including C-SPAN, CNN, CBS News, NBC News, BBC, Al Jazeera, ARD (Germany), AFP (France), CGTN (China), and NPR. <ref name=":0" /> Steinhorn has appeared as an on-air expert in a number of documentaries, including CNN’s The Sixties and 1968: The Year That Changed America; Superheroes Decoded on the History Channel; and The Kennedy Files on REELZ. He also appeared in a DVD special feature on the Baby Boom generation for the final season of AMC’s Mad Men. <ref name=":0" />
==Pundit Wire==

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In 2010, Steinhorn founded the website [[PunditWire]] with [[Robert Lehrman]], an adjunct professor in American University's School of Communication and former speechwriter for Al Gore.<ref name="PunditWire About">{{cite web | url=http://punditwire.com/about/ |title=PunditWire About |accessdate=21 February 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.american.edu/soc/faculty/rlehrma.cfm | title=Robert Lehrman Biography |accessdate=21 February 2011}}</ref> PunditWire is a news commentary site whose contributors are all current or former speechwriters from across the political spectrum. PunditWire is sponsored by American University.<ref name="PunditWire About" />
Since 2014 Steinhorn has lectured around the country for One Day University, giving talks on American politics, history, and the 1960s. <ref name=":0" /> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.omaha.com/columnists/grace/grace-boomers-changed-nation-indelibly-for-the-better-says-expert/article_b53b9d76-00d7-5d42-b68a-3b9142a6c2e4.html|title=Grace: Boomers changed nation indelibly for the better, says expert on '60s political culture|last=writer|first=Erin Grace World-Herald staff|website=Omaha.com|language=en|access-date=2019-07-09}}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pilotonline.com/news/local/article_b574077d-96d5-59b2-ada6-8ff3b8388402.html|title=Norfolk lecture program includes talk on how the '60s shaped American politics|last=Ollison|first=Rashod|website=Virginian-Pilot|language=en|access-date=2019-07-09}}</ref> He also has given speeches at the Clinton Library in Little Rock, The National Press Club, The Economic Club of Florida, Andrews Air Force Base, Amherst College, and Charles University in Prague, among others. <ref name=":0" /> <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.clintonschoolspeakers.com/content/leonard-steinhorn|title=Leonard Steinhorn {{!}} Clinton School of Public Service Speaker Series|website=www.clintonschoolspeakers.com|access-date=2019-07-09}}</ref>

In 2010, Steinhorn founded the website PunditWire with Robert Lehrman, a former speechwriter for Al Gore. PunditWire, which ceased publication in 2017, was a news commentary site whose contributors were all current or former speechwriters from across the political spectrum.

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In 2010, Steinhorn founded the website [[PunditWire]] with [[Robert Lehrman]], an adjunct professor in American University's School of Communication and former speechwriter for Al Gore.<ref name="PunditWire About">{{cite web | url=http://punditwire.com/about/ |title=PunditWire About |accessdate=21 February 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.american.edu/soc/faculty/rlehrma.cfm | title=Robert Lehrman Biography |accessdate=21 February 2011}}</ref> PunditWire, which ceased publication in 2017, was a news commentary site whose contributors are all current or former speechwriters from across the political spectrum. <ref name="PunditWire About" />


==Writing==
==Writing==
Steinhorn wrote ''The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy'' (2006) and co-authored ''By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race'' (1999).<ref name="multiple" />
Steinhorn wrote ''The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy'' (2006) and co-authored ''By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race'' (1999).<ref name="multiple">{{cite web|url=http://www.american.edu/uploads/resume/steinhorn%20bio%202008%20December%20short.pdf|title=Steinhorn Biography|year=2008|publisher=American University School of Communication|format=PDF|accessdate=6 November 2009}}</ref>


He has been published in the ''Washington Post'', ''Salon'', ''New York Times'', ''Politico'', ''The Hill'', ''International Herald Tribune'', ''Huffington Post'', ''World Financial Review'', and ''History News Network'', among others.
He has been published in the ''Washington Post'', ''Salon'', ''New York Times'', ''Politico'', ''The Hill'', ''International Herald Tribune'', ''Huffington Post'', ''World Financial Review'', and ''History News Network'', among others.

Revision as of 01:34, 9 July 2019

Leonard Steinhorn is is an author, CBS News political analyst, and professor of communication and affiliate professor of history at American University. He teaches, writes and lectures on American politics and presidential elections; the 1960s in America; baby boomers; recent American history; and race relations in the United States.

Career

Steinhorn is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Vassar College, where he received a bachelor's degree in history. He later received his master's degree in history from Johns Hopkins University.[1]

For several years in the 1980s, he worked as a speechwriter, press secretary, and policy advisor for members of the United States Congress, including former House Judiciary Committee Chair Peter W. Rodino and the future House Majority Leader, Congressman Steny Hoyer. He has served as a senior executive at strategic communication and media firms as well as leading non-profit organizations, including People for the American Way. [2]

In 1995, Steinhorn began teaching at American University in Washington, D.C. He was voted American University Faculty Member of the Year in 1999 and 2001 and he also was named Honors Professor of the Year in 2010. His courses on politics, presidential elections and recent American history have been featured on CNN, C-SPAN, NBC, FOX, USA Today, Agence France-Presse, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. From 2002 to 2004, he was president of American University's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. [1] [2]

Since 2012 he has served as a political analyst for CBS News, covering politics and elections, and he appears regularly on WUSA9 TV News in Washington, DC. [3] [4] Before that he was a political analyst for FOX-5 News in Washington, DC. [1] He also has appeared in numerous broadcast outlets including C-SPAN, CNN, CBS News, NBC News, BBC, Al Jazeera, ARD (Germany), AFP (France), CGTN (China), and NPR. [1] Steinhorn has appeared as an on-air expert in a number of documentaries, including CNN’s The Sixties and 1968: The Year That Changed America; Superheroes Decoded on the History Channel; and The Kennedy Files on REELZ. He also appeared in a DVD special feature on the Baby Boom generation for the final season of AMC’s Mad Men. [1]

Since 2014 Steinhorn has lectured around the country for One Day University, giving talks on American politics, history, and the 1960s. [1] [5] [6] He also has given speeches at the Clinton Library in Little Rock, The National Press Club, The Economic Club of Florida, Andrews Air Force Base, Amherst College, and Charles University in Prague, among others. [1] [7]

In 2010, Steinhorn founded the website PunditWire with Robert Lehrman, a former speechwriter for Al Gore. PunditWire, which ceased publication in 2017, was a news commentary site whose contributors were all current or former speechwriters from across the political spectrum.

In 2010, Steinhorn founded the website PunditWire with Robert Lehrman, an adjunct professor in American University's School of Communication and former speechwriter for Al Gore.[8][9] PunditWire, which ceased publication in 2017, was a news commentary site whose contributors are all current or former speechwriters from across the political spectrum. [8]

Writing

Steinhorn wrote The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy (2006) and co-authored By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race (1999).[10]

He has been published in the Washington Post, Salon, New York Times, Politico, The Hill, International Herald Tribune, Huffington Post, World Financial Review, and History News Network, among others.

Critical reception

Kirkus wrote that Steinhorn's widely discussed and debated book, The Greater Generation, was "a sturdy, often convincing defense of his own Boomer generation." [11]

Publishers Weekly called it a "powerful book" and wrote that "Steinhorn forcefully and gracefully defends his age cohort against these stereotypes in a paean to the generation that forever altered the face of American culture. [12]

Salon.com wrote that Steinhorn's "unapologetic celebration of the boomer legacy is refreshing, and much of his argument is convincing," but criticized it for sentimentalizing boomers

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Faculty Profile: Leonard Steinhorn | School of Communication | American University, Washington, DC". www.american.edu. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
  2. ^ a b "Steinhorn, Leonard | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
  3. ^ "Leonard Steinhorn". www.cbsnews.com. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
  4. ^ "Leonard Steinhorn | American University Professor". WUSA. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
  5. ^ writer, Erin Grace World-Herald staff. "Grace: Boomers changed nation indelibly for the better, says expert on '60s political culture". Omaha.com. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
  6. ^ Ollison, Rashod. "Norfolk lecture program includes talk on how the '60s shaped American politics". Virginian-Pilot. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
  7. ^ "Leonard Steinhorn | Clinton School of Public Service Speaker Series". www.clintonschoolspeakers.com. Retrieved 2019-07-09.
  8. ^ a b "PunditWire About". Retrieved 21 February 2011.
  9. ^ "Robert Lehrman Biography". Retrieved 21 February 2011.
  10. ^ "Steinhorn Biography" (PDF). American University School of Communication. 2008. Retrieved 6 November 2009.
  11. ^ Kamiya, Gary (3 February 2006). "Talkin' bout my generation". Salon.com. Retrieved 9 October 2009.
  12. ^ "The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy". Retrieved 13 November 2009.

External links

Selected works


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