Background
Muravchik, Joshua was born on September 17, 1947 in New York City. Son of Emanuel and Miriam Muravchik.
( Socialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant ...)
Socialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in "science." Indeed, no religion ever spread so far so fast. Yet while socialism had established itself as a fact of life by the beginning of the 20th century, it did not create societies of abundance or give birth to "the New Man." Each failure inspired new searches for the path to the promised land: revolution, communes, social democracy, Communism, Fascism, Third World socialism. None worked, and some exacted staggering human tolls. Then, after two hundred years of wishful thinking and fitful governance, socialism suddenly imploded in a fin du siecle drama of falling walls and collapsing regimes. In Heaven on Earth, Joshua Muravchik traces this fiery trajectory through sketches of the thinkers and leaders who developed the theory, led it to power, and presided over its collapse. We see such dreamers and doers as the French revolutionary Gracchus Babeuf, whose "Conspiracy of Equals" were the first to try to outlaw private property; Robert Owen, who hoped to plant a model socialist utopia in the United States; Friedrich Engels, who created the cult of Karl Marx and "scientific" socialism; Benito Mussolini, self proclaimed socialist heretic and inventor of Fascism; Clement Attlee, who rejected the fanatics and set out to build socialism democratically in Britain; Julius Nyerere, who merged social democracy and communism in the hope of making Tanzania a model for the developing world; and Mikhail Gorbachev, Deng Xiaoping and Tony Blair, who became socialism's inadvertent undertakers. Muravchik's accomplishment in Heaven on Earth is to tell a story filled with character and event while at the same time giving us an epic chronicle of a movement that tried to turn the world upside down--and for a time succeeded.
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This book presents the case for an active, interventionist American foreign policy in the post-Cold War era.
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This paperback edition of The Uncertain Crusade has a new preface by the author. Copublished with the Hamilton Press. Index.
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( The Next Founders brings to light the stories of seven ...)
The Next Founders brings to light the stories of seven remarkable people, six Arabs and an Iranian. Five are men; two, women. Four are Sunnis, two are Shiites, and the seventh is mixed. Their lives revolve around a sense of mission, and while the angles from which they attack it are varied, this mission is the same for all seven--to make their countries more free and democratic.
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This book shows how the UN has proven inept at maintaining world peace and promoting human rights. The author proposes a smaller version of the organization, refocused on simpler aims.
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(Muravchik (American Enterprise Institute) reviews news co...)
Muravchik (American Enterprise Institute) reviews news coverage of ten incidents from the second Palestinian Intifada, seeking and finding systemic bias against Israel. The subjects of the study are ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox, the New York Times, and the Washington Post . Muravchik's earlier works a
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Muravchik, Joshua was born on September 17, 1947 in New York City. Son of Emanuel and Miriam Muravchik.
Bachelor, City College of New York, 1970. Doctor of Philosophy, Georgetown University, 1984.
Project director Coalition for Democratic Majority, Washington, 1974, executive director, 1976-1978. Professional staff member House Subcommittee on Higher Education, 1975. Scholar-in-residence Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1985-1986.
Resident scholar American Enterprise Institute, Washington, 1987—2008. Fellow Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University School Advanced International Studie, since 2009. Member editorial board World Affairs, Washington, since 1982, Journal Democracy, Washington, since 1990.
Member Maryland state advisory committee United States Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, 1984-1997.
(Muravchik (American Enterprise Institute) reviews news co...)
( Socialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant ...)
(This book presents the case for an active, interventionis...)
( The Next Founders brings to light the stories of seven ...)
(This book shows how the UN has proven inept at maintainin...)
(This paperback edition of The Uncertain Crusade has a new...)
(This book shows why idealism offers the soundest basis fo...)
(This book shows why idealism offers the soundest basis fo...)
(Book: Socialism - history and effects.)
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National chan., Young People's Socialist League, 1968-1973, member commission on broadcasting to People's Republic of China, United States Government, Washington, 1992. Member advisory committee on promoting democracy, United States State Department, 2007-2008.
Married Sally Golden, January 1, 1974. Children: Stephanie, Madeline, Valerie.