Marvin Leonard Kalb (born June 9, 1930) is an American

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. He was the founding director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy from 1987 to 1999. The Shorenstein Center and the Kennedy School are part of

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. Kalb is currently a James Clark Welling Fellow at

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and a member of the Atlantic Community Advisory Board.

Career

Kalb spent 30 years as an award-winning reporter for

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and

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. Kalb was the last newsman recruited by Edward R. Murrow to join CBS News, becoming part of the later generation of the " Murrow Boys." His work at CBS landed him on

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's "enemies list". At NBC, he served as chief diplomatic correspondent and host of ''

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''. During many years of Kalb's tenures at CBS and NBC, his brother Bernard worked alongside him. Kalb has authored or coauthored many nonfiction books and two best-selling novels (''In the National Interest'' and ''The Last Ambassador''). Kalb hosts ''The Kalb Report'', a monthly discussion of media ethics and responsibility at the National Press Club in

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''Haunting Legacy''

In ''Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama'' (Brookings Institution Press 2011), Marvin Kalb collaborated with his daughter, Deborah Kalb, in an attempt to present a history of presidential decision-making on one crucial issue: in light of the

Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...

debacle, under what circumstances should the United States go to war? The Kalbs participated in a webcast interview of the book at the Pritzker Military Library on October 27, 2011.

Partial bibliography

* ''Assignment Russia: Becoming a Foreign Correspondent in the Crucible of the Cold War'' (2021), Brookings Institution Press, * ''Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy'' (2018), Brookings Institution Press, * ''The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956—Khrushchev, Stalin’s Ghost, and a Young American in Russia'' (2017), Brookings Institution Press, * ''Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War'' (2015),

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, . * ''The Road to War: Presidential Commitments Honored and Betrayed'' (2013), Brookings Institution Press, . * ''Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama'' (2011), Brookings Institution Press, . * ''The Media and the War on Terrorism'' (2003), Brookings Institution Press, .''The Media and the War on Terrorism''
from the

* ''One Scandalous Story: Clinton, Lewinsky, and Thirteen Days That Tarnished American Journalism'' (2001, ) * ''The Nixon Memo: Political Respectability, Russia, and the Press'' (1994, ) * ''The Last Ambassador'' (1981, ) * ''In the National Interest'' (1977, ) * ''Kissinger'' (1974, ) * ''Roots of Involvement: the U.S. in Asia, 1784–1971'' (1971, ) * ''Dragon in the Kremlin: A Report on the Russian-Chinese Alliance'' (1961)

References

External links

About Marvin Kalb
at ''The Kalb Report'' from the

website
Marvin Kalb's Profile at Harvard University
from the John F. Kennedy School of Government website
Reagan Mondale debate October 21, 1984
on Wikimedia Commons * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kalb, Marvin Harvard Fellows Harvard Kennedy School faculty American television reporters and correspondents American foreign policy writers American male non-fiction writers American journalism academics Living people 1930 births CBS News people City College of New York alumni Harvard University alumni NBC News people American television news anchors 20th-century American Jews 21st-century American Jews