Robert Bendiner


Robert Bendiner was an American journalist, editor, and author who served as managing editor of The Nation and as a member of the editorial board of the New York Times.
He also contributed to The New Republic, The Nation, The New Yorker, and Harper's.

Career

Bendiner wrote for the Daily Worker in the 1930s.
He served as managing editor of The Nation magazine from 1937 to 1944. In 1942, he published a book expected to criticize the U.S. State Department. In 1943, he joined 250 liberals in supporting the continuation of the American Labor Party against a communist faction within.
He returned to The Nation as an associate editor from 1946 to 1950.
He wrote freelance from 1951 to 1968 and again from 1978 until his death. He was "associated" with the New York Times from 1969 to 1977.
He chaired the Wellesley Summer Institute Social Progress from 1946 to 1953. He was faculty at the Salzburg Seminary in American Studies in 1956 and visiting lecturer in journalism at Wesleyan University in 1983.
He died in February 2009.

Awards

Writings

Books

The Riddle of the State Department White House Fever Obstacle Course on Capitol Hill Just Around The Corner – A Highly Selective History Of The Thirties The Strenuous Decade: A Social and Intellectual Record of the 1930s with Daniel Aaron The Politics of Schools – A Crisis in Self-Government
  • ''The Fall of the Wild, the Rise of the Zoo''

Articles

Nation:
  • "Wallace: The Incomplete Angler,"
  • "Rout of the Bourbons"
  • "Politics and People: The Trial of Alger Hiss"
  • "A Most Unusual Case": The Trial of Alger Hiss – III"
  • "The Ordeal of Alger Hiss: II. Psychiatry, Law, and Politics"
New York Times:
  • "Point Four – Still the Great Basic Hope"
  • "The Undramatic Man of Drama"
  • "To Stop Wasting Our Ex-Presidents"
  • "Portrait of the Perfect Candidate"
  • "Ghosts Behind The Speechmakers"
  • "Battle of Filibuster"
  • "How Much Has TV Changed Campaigning?"
  • "If TV Moved Into the Classroom"
  • "Current Quotations On Stockbrokers"
Harper's:
  • The man who reads corpses
  • White House fever: Why candidates campaign
Saturday Review:
  • "When Culture Came to Main Street"
Reporter:
  • “Who Owns Outer Space?"
American Heritage:
  • "Two Cheers For Optimism"
  • "The Law And Potter Stewart: An Interview With Justice Potter Stewart"
  • "Explaining What You Are After Is The Secret Of Diplomacy"
  • "What I Learned From The Pirates"