Robert Bendiner


Robert Bendiner was an American journalist, editor, and author who served as managing editor of The Nation and as a member of the editorial board of the New York Times.
He also contributed to The New Republic, The Nation, The New Yorker, and Harper's.

Career

Bendiner wrote for the Daily Worker in the 1930s.
He served as managing editor of The Nation magazine from 1937 to 1944. In 1942, he published a book expected to criticize the U.S. State Department. In 1943, he joined 250 liberals in supporting the continuation of the American Labor Party against a communist faction within.
He returned to The Nation as an associate editor from 1946 to 1950.
He wrote freelance from 1951 to 1968 and again from 1978 until his death. He was "associated" with the New York Times from 1969 to 1977.
He chaired the Wellesley Summer Institute Social Progress from 1946 to 1953. He was faculty at the Salzburg Seminary in American Studies in 1956 and visiting lecturer in journalism at Wesleyan University in 1983.
He died in February 2009.

Awards

Books

Nation:
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Harper's:
Saturday Review:
Reporter:
American Heritage: