Background
Sussman, Leonard Richard was born on November 26, 1920 in New York City. Son of Jacob and Carrie (Marks) Sussman.
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Author has for 25 years worked on Freedom House Survey of Press Freedom to provide a universal standard against which to judge scores of different abuses of press freedom. In this work, his premise freedom of news media is intimately tied to human freedom and that the press is a surrogate for the people.
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As the executive director of Freedom House for twenty-one years and now its Senior Scholar in International Communications, Leonard R. Sussman has had the extraordinary opportunity of both leading and serving an organization that has been at the center of the struggle for freedom for more than sixty years. Founded by Eleanor Roosevelt, Wendell Willkie, and other visionary Americans, both Democratic and Republican, Freedom House has championed worthy causes from the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, to the new democracies that have emerged around the world since the 1990s. In this engrossing memoir of his adventures with courageous men and women in fifty-nine countries, Sussman pays tribute to those mostly unsung heroes who contributed to freedom and humanistic ideals and in some cases paid the heavy price of imprisonment, torture, or death. Among the many interesting individuals profiled are: Helen Suzman, a white parliamentarian who fought apartheid for three decades; Milovan Djilas, a leading Yugoslav anticommunist who suffered years of imprisonment; philosopher-activist Sidney Hook; Luis Muñoz Marin, Puerto Rica’s first elected native governor; Lucia Thorne, a courageous journalist who risked her life in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion; and many other journalists, politicians, activists, and intellectuals. Also included is a never-before-published 1987 interview with civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, in which Rustin compares the NAACP’s Roy Wilkins with Martin Luther King. This one-of-a-kind memoir, full of intriguing insights and vignettes, is a fascinating record of people, ideas, and history in the making.
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A Fulbright Scholarship is known world-wide as an honor and a boon to international relations. For 46 years, more than 180,000 Americans and nationals of 130 countries have studied, taught, and researched in one another's lands. How and why was this path-breaking program created? What is the future for this educational and cross-cultural exchange? In answer to these questions, Leonard Sussman provokes a discussion of the benefits and detriments of the Fulbright program as he seeks to use its method and philosophy to influence national, international, and cultural policy.
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Sussman, Leonard Richard was born on November 26, 1920 in New York City. Son of Jacob and Carrie (Marks) Sussman.
AB, New York University, 1940. Master of Science in Journalism, Columbia University, 1941.
Copy editor New York Morning Telegraph, news editor radio station WQXR, 1941. Cable editor San Juan (Puerto Rico) World Journal, also correspondent Business Week magazine, 1941-1942. Editor foreign broadcast intelligence service Federal Communications Commission, 1942.
Press secretary to Governor of Puerto Rico, 1942-1943. Director information in New York for Government of Puerto Rico, 1946-1949. Regional director, then national executive director American Council Judaism, 1949-1966.
Consultant public affairs consultant Nationwide Insurance Companies (and industrial subsidiary), 1955-1957. Member editorial committee Council Liberal Churches, 1956-1959. Executive director Freedom House, 1967-1988, 96, senior scholar in international communications, since 1988.
Evaluator Fulbright Program Board Foreign Scholarships, 1990-1992. Executive director Willkie Memorial, 1970-1988. Adjunct professor journalsim and mass communications New York University, New York City, 1990-1999.
Adjunct professor School for International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, 2000-2001. Organizer, director Freedom House/Books United States of America, 1968-1985. Editor Freedom at Issue, bimonthly, 1970-1981.
Member United States Delegates to Conference World Communicaiton Year/83, 1982-1983. Organizer academy conferences. Participant International Conference on Press Freedom, Venice, Italy, 1976, 77, Cairo, 1978, Talloires, 1981, 83, San Jose, Costa Rica, Johannnesburg, and Santiago Chile, 1987, others.
Panel competition in space Congressional Office Technology Assessment, 1982-1983.
(Author has for 25 years worked on Freedom House Survey of...)
(As the executive director of Freedom House for twenty-one...)
(A Fulbright Scholarship is known world-wide as an honor a...)
Trustee International Council on Future of University, 1973-1984. Board directors World Press Freedom Committee, since 1977. Chairman Friends of Survey Magazine Charitable Trust, London, 1978-1992.
Member United States National Commission for United Nations Educational, 1979-1985, vice chairman, 1983-1985. Member United States delegations to international conference on space, African Aid, United Nations Educational, London Information Forum. Member International Freedom of Expression Exchange, 1995-2003, member council, 1997-1999.
2001-2002. Member International Institute Communications, International Press Institute, International Association Mass Communications Research, Century Club.
Married Frances Rukeyser, May 9, 1942 (divorced 1958). Married Marianne Rita Gutmann, May 28, 1958. Children: Lynne, David William, Mark Jacob.
