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Lefever, Ernest Warren was born on November 12, 1919 in York, Pennsylvania, United States.
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This definitive anthology is the fruit of one of America’s most respected neoconservatives. Trained in Christian ethics, Ernest Lefever has been an articulate public policy advocate. Both conservatives and liberals will ignore his views at their peril.In this first-ever anthology of his most important work, Lefever takes a bold and lively march through the second half of the twentieth century. As an acute participant-observer who cares deeply about peace, freedom, and human dignity, Lefever became a neoconservative twenty years before Irving Kristol coined the term. For this volume, Lefever selected forty of his most influential essays from some 500 published pieces. They reveal his dramatic transformation from a liberal pacifist during World War II to a humane realist.The earliest essays, from Lefever’s Yale Divinity School days, recount his experience as a civil rights activist during World War II and as a relief worker in the POW camps of postwar Europe. Later essays assess such institutions as the United Nations and the World Council of Churches. Lefever tackles a myriad policy issues from nuclear testing and human rights to arms control and the collapse of communism. His essays on the Berlin Wall and his reappraisal of the Vietnam legacy confirm his skill at combining history, political theory, and opinion journalism. An introductory autobiographical sketch vividly portrays Lefever’s spiritual and political pilgrimage.
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This book is based on the 1971 Christian A. Herter Lecture Series at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. Each of three lecturers-Senator Mark O. Hatfield, Paul Ramsey, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.-was asked to address several questions on ethics and politics. Lefever, after editing the three lectures, also wrote an introductory essay-hence four perspectives.
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Lefever, Ernest Warren was born on November 12, 1919 in York, Pennsylvania, United States.
AB, Elizabethtown College, 1942; Bachelor's Degree in Christian ethics, Yale University, 1945; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1956.
Field secretary, World Alliance of Young Men’s Christian Association's, United Kingdom and West Germany, 1945-1948;
international affairs specialist, National Council Churches, New York City, 1952-1954;
member of faculty department government, U. Maryland., 1956-1957;
member research staff, acting head foreign affairs division, Library of Congress, Washington, 1957-1959;
foreign affairs staff, Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, 1959-1960;
research associate, Washington Center Foreign Policy Research, Johns Hopkins University, 1960-1961;
senior staff, Institute Defense Analyses, Washington, 1961-1964;
senior fellow foreign policy studies, Brookings Institution, 1964-1976;
founder, president, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, 1976-1989;
senior fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, since 1989;
assistant secretary state for human rights and humanitarian affairs designate, 1981. Professorial lecturer department government Georgetown University.
Lecturer National War College, Army, Navy and Air Force War colleges, Japan Defense College, numerous universities. Consultant secretary Department State, 1981-1983. Member International Institute Strategic Studies, London, 1960-1989.
Participant numerous international conferences.
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Member Maryland State Commission Values in Education, 1979-1983. Member Washington Institute Foreign Affairs, Council Foreign Relations, Johns Hopkins University Society Scholars, Society Values in Higher Education, Philadelphia Society (1st vice president 1986-1987), Cosmos Club (Washington, Yale Club (Washington and New York City).
Married Margaret Louise Briggs, 1951. Children: David, Bryce.