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Levin occasionally has guests on his show, including Republican politicians, conservative pundits and commentators, and a variety of entertainers such as [[Jackie Mason]], [[Jon Voight]], and [[Clint Walker]].
Levin occasionally has guests on his show, including Republican politicians, conservative pundits and commentators, and a variety of entertainers such as [[Jackie Mason]], [[Jon Voight]], and [[Clint Walker]].

Levin's show has garnered criticism. For example, former [[George W. Bush]] speechwriter [[David Frum]] has criticized Levin's approach as an example of an "increasingly angry tone of incitement being heard from right-of-center broadcasters," and he has accused him and other broadcasters of talk that "invites, incites, and prepares a prefabricated justification for violence."<ref name="Frum1">{{cite web
| last = Frum
| first = David
| title = The Reckless Right Courts Violence; Hysterical Talk from TV and Radio Hosts May Be a Cynical Marketing Exercise. But It's Getting Too Dangerous to Ignore
| publisher = The Week
| date = 2009-08-13
| url = http://www.theweek.com/bullpen/column/99474/The_reckless_Right_courts_violence
| accessdate = 2009-10-17}}</ref>


==Writer==
==Writer==

Revision as of 04:15, 8 November 2009

For other people named Mark Levin or Mark Levine, see Mark Levine.

Mark Levin
Career
ShowThe Mark Levin Show
NetworkABC Radio Networks
Time slot6-9 p.m. EST
StyleTalk radio
CountryUnited States
Websitehttp://marklevinshow.com

Mark Reed Levin (born September 21, 1957) is an American radio host, lawyer, author, and political commentator who served in the Reagan administration. He is the host of The Mark Levin Show, a nationally-syndicated talk show that airs throughout the United States, and the President of Landmark Legal Foundation. Levin earned his B.A. magna cum laude and J.D. at Temple University.[1][2] He is the author of multiple bestselling books and a contributor to various other media outlets.

Biography

Mark R. Levin grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and holds a B.A. from Temple University, where he was graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. Levin also earned a J.D. from the Temple University Beasley School of Law.

Beginning in 1981, Levin served as advisor to several members of President Ronald Reagan's Cabinet, eventually becoming Associate Director of Presidential Personnel and ultimately Chief of Staff to Attorney General Edwin Meese; Levin also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education, and Deputy Solicitor of the U.S. Department of the Interior.

He has practiced law in the private sector, and is president of Landmark Legal Foundation, a conservative public interest law firm founded in 1976 and based in Leesburg, Virginia.

Levin has participated in the Freedom Concerts, an annual benefit concert to aid the families of fallen soldiers, and he uses his radio program to promote the concerts.[3][4] Levin is also involved with Troopathon, a charity which sends care packages to soldiers serving overseas.[5]

In 2001, the American Conservative Union awarded Levin its Ronald Reagan Award.[6][7]

Radio broadcasting

Levin began his broadcast career as a guest on conservative talk radio programs. For many years he was a frequent contributor of legal opinions to The Rush Limbaugh Show, where Limbaugh referred to him on-air as "F. Lee Levin," a tongue-in-cheek reference to the famous defense attorney F. Lee Bailey. He was also a contributor to The Sean Hannity Show and eventually got a radio slot of his own, on WABC, following Sean Hannity's program. Hannity has nicknamed Mark Levin "The Great One." Levin and Hannity remain frequent contributors to each other's programs, often calling in and facetiously referring to each other as "Doctor Hannity" and "Doctor Levin."

The Mark Levin Show

Levin began his radio hosting career in 2002 as a Sunday afternoon host on WABC. His radio show, a mix of political and social commentary from a conservative point of view, covers legal issues in some detail, including decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court. Levin follows the traditional talk radio model of taking listener phone calls throughout the show. In the fall of 2003, his show filled the 6-8 p.m. (ET) time slot. As of February 2, 2009, his show was expanded to three hours, namely, 6-9 p.m.[8]

As of 2006, his show is syndicated by Citadel Media (formerly known as ABC Radio Networks) on over 150 stations as well as on the XM America Right and SIRIUS Patriot channels. Levin's show has been rated number one in its time slot in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Dallas - Fort Worth and Washington, D.C.[8] According to Talkers Magazine, The Mark Levin Show is tied for the fourth most-listened to talk show with The Laura Ingraham Show on commercial radio in the United States, with more than 5.5 million listeners weekly.[9]

Levin occasionally has guests on his show, including Republican politicians, conservative pundits and commentators, and a variety of entertainers such as Jackie Mason, Jon Voight, and Clint Walker.

Writer

Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

File:Liberty and Tyranny.jpg
Cover of Liberty and Tyranny

Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto (ISBN 1-41656-285-0) was released on March 24, 2009, and became a #1 New York Times best seller for eleven of twelve weeks,[1] as well as #1 on Nielsen's BookScan.[10] The book includes discussion of a variety of issues that, according to Levin, need to be addressed in the United States. Liberty and Tyranny has sold over one million copies according to Threshold Editions, the book's publisher.[11]

Former Federal Prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy wrote of Liberty and Tyranny in The New Criterion, "We are in the high tide of America’s Leftist ascendancy: the Obama evisceration of individual freedom and installation of authoritarian collectivism—at warp speed, driven by an ambition that would have made Woodrow Wilson and FDR blush. Against this tidal wave, Levin offers not so much a defense as a plan of attack, a clarion call to roll back the seas of Change."[12] On the other hand, Steve Almond of Salon wrote that "the tantalizing beauty of a Mark Levin's text resides precisely in this ability to attribute any crisis of State to its nefarious indulgences. The current economic meltdown, for instance, should not be blamed on the psychotic greed of Wall Street, but on the State's deranged need to throw money at the poor and undeserving."[13]

Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and Anguish

In 2007, Levin released a book about his dogs, Pepsi and Sprite. Specifically, the book was about Sprite, a Spaniel mix that his wife and son persuaded him to adopt from the local shelter in 2004. The book was titled Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and Anguish (ISBN 1-41655-913-2). Rescuing Sprite chronicles Sprite’s health deterioration in 2006.

Men In Black: How The Supreme Court is Destroying America

Levin authored the bestselling book, Men In Black: How The Supreme Court Is Destroying America (ISBN 0-89526-050-6) in 2005, in which Levin advanced his thesis that judges (from all parts of the political spectrum) have "legislated from the bench." Of Men in Black, a review in the Defense Council Journal described Men in Black as “…a forceful indictment of what Levin identifies as an increasingly 'activist' court for amending our national Constitution in the guise of construing it.” [14] In contrast,[15]Slate senior editor and legal correspondent Dahlia Lithwick wrote that "no serious scholar of the court or the Constitution, on the ideological left or right, is going to waste their time engaging Levin's arguments once they've read this book." [16]

Other works

As of October 2009, Levin was listed as a Contributing Editor on the National Review Online[17] website. The archives contain multiple articles contributed by Mr. Levin, beginning in 2000.

References

  1. ^ Levin, Mark R. (2007). Rescuing Sprite. Simon and Schuster. p. 28. ISBN 1416559132, 9781416559139. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: invalid character (help)
  2. ^ "Mark R. Levin Bio on National Review Online". National Review Online. Retrieved 12/01/2008. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  3. ^ The Chronicle Christian Newspaper - Your Christian news authority! - Sean Hannity, Freedom Concert comes to Nokia Theatre
  4. ^ Montgomery Gentry loves country and sings for "Freedom"
  5. ^ Troopathon Homepage
  6. ^ CPAC Pleased to Present Annual Reagan Award
  7. ^ Landmark Legal Foundation
  8. ^ a b Jeffrey, Terence (2006-10-02). "Mark Levin Takes Talk Radio by Storm". Human Events. Retrieved 2007-09-16. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  9. ^ "The Top Talk Radio Audiences". Talkers magazine. September 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-18.
  10. ^ Nielsens Bookscan Liberty and Tyranny, April 9, 2009
  11. ^ Vivian, Jordan (2009-09-15). "Liberty and Tyranny Sells a Million". Human Events. Retrieved 2009-09-21. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  12. ^ McCarthy, Andrew (2009-05). "The Work of Generations". New Criterion. Retrieved 2009-10-8. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  13. ^ Almond, Steve (2009-09-12). "Glenn Beck is the future of literary fiction". Salon. Retrieved 2009-09-24. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  14. ^ "Men in Black: How the Supreme Court is Destroying America", Defense Council Journal , January 1, 2006.
  15. ^ Plotz, David. Obama carries the great state of Slate, Slate.com, October 28, 2008. Retrieved October 21, 2009, from http://www.slate.com/id/2203052/
  16. ^ Dahlia Lithwick, "The Limbaugh Code: The New York Times best seller no one is talking about.", Slate, April 1, 2005
  17. ^ "Mark R. Leving Archive on the National Review Online". Retrieved 2009-10-22.
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