Suzanne Garment Explained

Suzanne Garment
Birth Name:Suzanne Rose Bloom
Spouse:Paul Harold Weaver
Leonard Garment [d. 2013]
Children:1
Nationality:American
Other Names:Suzanne Rose Garment
Suzanne Weaver

Suzanne Garment (née Bloom) is an American scholar, writer, editor and attorney.

Garment is best known for her book, Scandal: The Culture of Mistrust in American Politics, and for her work as an aide to Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan working to block the 1975 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 of the United Nations that "Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination."[1]

Education and career

Garment holds the A.B. from Radcliffe College, the M.A. from the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, the PhD in political science from Harvard University, the J.D. and a master of laws degree in taxation from Georgetown University

She has served as a visiting scholar at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University; special counsel to Richard Ravitch, New York Lieutenant Governor and as counsel to the Task Force on the State Budget Crisis, co-chaired by Ravitch and former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker. Before earning the J.D., she was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute;[2] associate editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal;[3] author of the "Capital Chronicle" column at the Wall Street Journal; and special assistant to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.[4] Garment has taught politics and public policy at Yale and Harvard Universities.[5] She was the executive editor of Jewish Ideas Daily.

Personal life

She was married to Leonard Garment; they have a daughter, Ann.[6]

Books

References

  1. News: Troy . Gil . Moynihan's Moment: America's Fight Against Zionism as Racism . Oxford University Press . 2013.
  2. News: WASHINGTON TALK; History's Sliding Scale Of Ethics in the Capital . New York Times . 21 April 1989.
  3. News: Columnist Is Candidate For Reagan Press Post . 12 December 2018 . New York Times . 4 January 1987.
  4. Web site: With Words We Govern Men. 2013-02-27.
  5. Web site: Suzanne Garment | Center for International Media Assistance . 2012-12-04 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130122112057/http://cima.ned.org/about-cima/cima-advisory-council/suzanne-garment . 2013-01-22 .
  6. News: Leonard Garment obituary . 12 December 2018 . The Guardian . 23 July 2013.
  7. Brownstein . Ronald . Why We Don't Love Them Like We Used To : SCANDAL: The Culture of Mistrust in American Politics . Los Angeles Times . 29 September 1991 .
  8. Web site: Scandal, by Suzanne Garment. December 1991.
  9. Web site: Nonfiction Book Review: Scandal by Suzanne Garment, Author, Peter Osnos, Editor Crown Publishers $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8129-1942-4. October 1991 .
  10. News: Yardley . Jonathan . Sensation-Mongering and the Real News . Washington Post . 29 September 1991.
  11. Book: Hoffman . Stanley . Daniel Moynihan: A Dangerous Man . Dissent (American magazine) .
  12. Book: Whitaker . Mark T. . A Complex Place . 1 December 1978 . Harvard Crimson .
  13. Kraner . Jane . Timely Griefs . New York Review of Books . 3 May 1979 . 26 . 7 .