Myron Magnet
Myron Magnet, prize-winning author of The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817, was the editor of City Journal from 1994 through 2006 and is now the magazine’s editor-at-large. A former member of the board of editors of Fortune magazine, Magnet has written about a wide variety of topics, from American society and social policy, economics, and corporate management to intellectual history, literature, architecture, and the American Founding. His earlier book,The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties’ Legacy to the Underclass (William Morrow, 1993; second edition: Encounter Books, 2000) argues that the radical transformation of elite and mainstream American culture that took place in the 1960s produced catastrophic changes in behavior at the bottom of society that gave rise to the urban underclass. Hilton Kramer called the book “an indispensable guide to the outstanding question of the day,” while columnist Mona Charen deemed it “the book of the decade”. President George W. Bush told the Wall Street Journal that it was the most important book he’d ever read after the Bible, and Bush strategist Karl Rove called The Dream and the Nightmare a roadmap to the president’s compassionate conservatism.
Dr. Myron Magnet is also the author of Dickens and the Social Order (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985; second edition: ISI Books, 2004) and editor of The Millennial City: A New Urban Paradigm for 21st-Century America; What Makes Charity Work? A Century of Public and Private Philanthropy; Modern Sex: Liberation and its Discontents; and The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan than Today’s. In addition to his many City Journal and Fortune articles, he has written for The Wall Street Journal, National Review, The American Spectator, Commentary, The New York Times, and other publications. He has also appeared on numerous television and radio programs. Magnet holds bachelor’s degrees from Columbia University (1966) and the University of Cambridge. He earned an M.A. from Cambridge and a Ph.D. from Columbia, where he taught for several years, before joining the staff of Fortune in 1980. President George W. Bush awarded him the National Humanities Medal in 2008. Married, with two grown children, Magnet lives in Manhattan.
Radio Shows featuring Myron Magnet
Author James Rollins, Kenya, America’s Whiskey Trail and Founders’ Homes
Giraffe on a lunch break. Photo: Tonya Fitzpatrick Explore Kenya, America’s History from the Whiskey Trail and Founding Fathers, meet bestselling author James Rollins and learn about Sri Lanka and Belize on today’s World Footprints show. Kenya is called the “Heart of Africa” and is considered to be the cradle … Read more
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