Robert Schlesinger is an American writer and liberal commentator focusing on politics and political communications.

Biography

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native, he is a graduate of

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. He now lives in

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, with his wife and their two sons. He is the youngest son of the late historian

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (; born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual. The son of the influential historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. and a s ...

and the brother of

Stephen Schlesinger Stephen C. Schlesinger is an American historian, political commentator, and international affairs specialist. He is a Fellow at the Century Foundation in New York City. He served as director of the World Policy Institute at the New School University ...

and Christina Schlesinger. He is a descendant of the Irish revolutionaries

Robert Emmet Robert Emmet (4 March 177820 September 1803) was an Irish Republican, orator and rebel leader. Following the suppression of the United Irish uprising in 1798, he sought to organise a renewed attempt to overthrow the British Crown and Prote ...

(for whom he is named) and

Thomas Addis Emmet Thomas Addis Emmet (24 April 176414 November 1827) was an Irish and American lawyer and politician. He was a senior member of the revolutionary Irish republican group United Irishmen in the 1790s. He served as Attorney General of New York from ...

Professional career

Schlesinger has worked at the

Center for Public Integrity The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) is an American nonprofit investigative journalism organization whose stated mission is "to reveal abuses of power, corruption and dereliction of duty by powerful public and private institutions in order to ...

as a researcher, then at The Hill as a reporter and political editor, at Voter.com as chief congressional correspondent, and as a Washington, DC reporter for The Boston Glob''e''. He was most recently managing editor for opinion at '' U.S. News & World Report''. After leaving U.S. News, he opened Schlesinger Communications, a firm which specializes in ghostwriting. His book, ''White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters,'' was published in 2008. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including NBC News' Think opinion section, The Washington Monthly, The Washington Post, The Weekly Standard, People, Mother Jones and The American Conservative, among other publications. He cohosted the Bipodisan podcast, along with Jean Card, a Republican former cabinet speechwriter, from 2019-2021.

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