Brian Kahn (1947–2020) was an American attorney, author, journalist, and public radio host. He founded the weekly public affairs program ''Home Ground'' which is broadcast on 30+ stations/translators in the Rocky Mountain west.
On the air since 1996, it was named Montana's Outstanding Non-Commercial Radio Program in 2002. Kahn won the 2009 Montana Governor's Award for the Humanities.
Kahn was born in New York and moved to California as a child. He was an amateur boxer while in school and while he attended law school at the
University of California, Berkeley
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he also coached boxing. the youngest person elected to the
Sonoma County
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Sonoma County comprises the Santa Rosa-Petaluma ...
Board of Supervisors and sat on the
California Fish and Game Commission
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. He moved to Montana in the late 1980s and was the director of the Montana
Nature Conservancy
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Founded in ...
.
His book ''Real Common Sense'', "a well-written, well-intentioned reflection on what it means to be a citizen in today's imperfect America," was published in 2011 by
Seven Stories Press
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.
''Publishers Weekly'', February 14, 2011
/ref> ''Rediscovering My Country'' was published in 2015 and presented at the Havana International Book Fair.
Awards
* Montana Governor's Award for the Humanities
* CINE Golden Eagle Award for "A Thousand Cranes", documentary film about US–Soviet cooperation to save the Siberian crane from extinction.
* President's Medal, Salerno International Film Festival, "A Thousand Cranes".
* Chevron Conservation Award
Publications
* The Streamside Flyfisher's Guide, with Max Hale (Baetis Press, 1981).
* Seasons of the Hunter, Robert Elman, editor. Contributing author. (A. Knopf, N.Y. 1985).
* Parting With Illusions, by Vladimir Pozner (Atlantic Monthly Press, N.Y. 1990) collaborator.
* Training People, by Tess of Helena (Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 2007)
* America, One Story High, with Vladimir Pozner, (Zebra E, Moscow, 2008)
* Real Common Sense (Seven Stories Press, N.Y. 2011)
* Huffington Post blog, 2012–present
* Rediscovering My Country (Social Sciences Editorial, Havana, Cuba, 2015)
Television
* A Thousand Cranes, aired internationally on TBS, BBC, national Soviet television, 1987. Producer, Executive Producer.
* America, One Storey High, 16-hour documentary series on the United States, broadcast on Russia's Channel One. Winner of the NIKA Award. Kahn served with Vladimir Pozner Vladimir Pozner may refer to
*Vladimir Pozner Jr. (born 1934), French-born Russian-American journalist and broadcaster
* Vladimir Pozner Sr. (1908–1975), Soviet spy
*Vladimir Pozner (writer)
Vladimir Solomonovich Pozner (; 5 January 1905 in P ...
and Ivan Urgant
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as co-host.
References
American radio journalists
Living people
1947 births
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