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Stephen Schlesinger is an adjunct fellow at the Century Foundation in New York and the former director of the World Policy Institute at the New School University (1997-2006). Schlesinger received his B.A. from Harvard University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. In the early 70s, he edited and published The New Democrat Magazine. Thereafter he spent four years as a staff writer at Time Magazine.

For 12 years, he served as Gov. Mario Cuomo’s speechwriter and foreign policy adviser. In the mid-90s, Schlesinger worked at the United Nations at Habitat, the agency dealing with global cities. He is co-editor of "Journals 1952-2000 by Arthur Schlesinger Jr.," published by Penguin in 2007. He is also the author of three books, including "Act of Creation: The Founding of The United Nations," which won the 2004 Harry S. Truman Book Award; "Bitter Fruit: The Story of the U.S. Coup in Guatemala" (with Stephen Kinzer), which was listed as a New York Times "notable" book for 1982 and has sold over 100,000 copies; and "The New Reformers." He is a specialist on the foreign policy of the Clinton and Bush administrations and a frequent contributor to magazines and newspapers, including The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Nation Magazine and The New York Observer. In 1978, he was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. He has appeared on CNN, Fox TV, NPR and other media outlets. His Web site is stephenschlesinger.com. He can be reached at StephenSchlesinger@MaximsNews.com.