Michael Lind
Michael Lind (born April 23, 1962 in Austin, Texas) is an American writer. Currently Lind is Policy Director of the Economic Growth Program at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C., Editor of New American Contract and its blog Value Added, and a columnist for Salon magazine. Lind was a guest lecturer at Harvard Law School[1] and has taught at Johns Hopkins and Virginia Tech. He has been an editor or staff writer at The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The New Republic and The National Interest.[citation needed] Lind has published a number of books on U.S. history, political economy, foreign policy and politics as well as fiction, poetry and children’s literature.
Life
A fifth-generation native of Texas, Lind graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with honors in English and History (Plan II). In 1985 he received an MA in International Relations from Yale University and a JD from the University of Texas Law School in 1988. Lind moved to Washington, where after working as Assistant to the Director of the U.S. State Department’s Center for the Study of Foreign Affairs in 1990-91 he became Executive Editor of The National Interest from 1991-94. From 1994-98 he lived in Manhattan and worked for Harper’s Magazine, The New Republic and The New Yorker. In 1998 he became Washington Editor of Harper’s Magazine and moved to Washington, where in the same year he co-founded the New America Foundation with Ted Halstead, with whom Lind co-authored The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics.[2]
Work
Lind has examined and defended the tradition of American democratic nationalism associated with Alexander Hamilton in a series of books, including The Next American Nation (1995), Hamilton’s Republic (1997), and What Lincoln Believed (2004). Lind has also written two books on U.S. foreign policy, The American Way of Strategy (2006) and Vietnam: The Necessary War (1999). A former neoconservative, Lind criticized the American Right in Up From Conservatism: Why the Right is Wrong for America (1996) and Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics (2004). Lind has also published a novel, Powertown (1996), a narrative poem, The Alamo (1997), and a children’s book, Bluebonnet Girl (2004).
Bibliography
- The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution, Free Press, 1995
- Up From Conservatism: Why the Right is Wrong for America, Free Press, 1996
- Powertown, HarperCollins, 1996
- The Alamo: An Epic, Houghton Mifflin, 1997
- Hamilton's Republic: Readings in the American Democratic Nationalist Tradition, Free Press, 1997 (editor)
- The Beige and the Black, New York Times Magazine, 1998
- Vietnam: The Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military Conflict, Free Press, 1999
- The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics, Doubleday, 2001 (co-authored with Ted Halstead)
- When You Are Someone Else, Aralia Press, 2002
- Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics, Basic Books, 2002
- Bluebonnet Girl, Henry Holt, 2004
- What Lincoln Believed: The Values and Convictions of America’s Greatest President, Doubleday, 2005
- The American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and The American Way of Life, Oxford University Press, 2006
- A collection of poems Parallel Lives Etruscan Press, 2007
References
- ^ "Michael Lind- Biography". Mourningamerica.com. 1935-12-06. Retrieved 2010-10-22.
- ^ The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics (2001)