A Fulbright Scholarship is known world-wide as an honor and a boon to international relations. For 46 years, more than 180,000 Americans and nationals of 130 countries have studied, taught, and researched in one another's lands. How and why was this path-breaking program created? What is the future for this educational and cross-cultural exchange? In answer to these questions, Leonard Sussman provokes a discussion of the benefits and detriments of the Fulbright program as he seeks to use its method and philosophy to influence national, international, and cultural policy.

The Culture of Freedom: The Small World of Fulbright Scholars

Education & Teaching

Sussman, Leonard R.

Schools & Teaching

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

<p>Trustees and staff of Freedom House address different aspects of the challenge posed by the title of this book, examining vital domestic and foreign policy issues. From a perspective provided by the last forty-five years they provide responses, sometimes surprising and disconcerting, to the question posed by the book's title. The result is this exciting volume. Contributors: John W. Riehm; Max M. Kampelman; Philip van Slyck; Bayard Rustin; Zbigniew Brzezinski; Sidney Hook; Burns W. Roper; Leonard R. Sussman; John Diebold; Leo Cherne; James Finn; Paul Seabury; and Morton M. Kondracke.</p>

Today's American

Politics & Social Sciences

Finn, James

Politics & Government

University Press of America

Written for the general reader, this book focuses on public affairs (power), the press, communications technology, and human freedom. In warning that today's idea-controls must first be eliminated, the author provides 82 forms of censorship and self-censorship, and ways journalists, in turn, prod government officials, analyses of the state/press struggle in 88 countries, a first-of-its-kind survey of correspondents in 74 countries who respond to 200 questions on how news media really function world-wide, and scores of concrete recommendations for removing today's censorship and opening the age of information freedom. The book foresees the democratizing potentials of the new communications technologies. ISDN (Integrated Systems of Digital Networks) will provide the world-wide network of networksóprint, broadcast, picture, data, marketing, banking, encyclopedic, electronic mail and other servicesóall on a single terminal at home or office, linked by telephone on a fiber optic thread.

Power, the Press and the Technology of Freedom: The Coming Age of ISDN (Focus on Issues)

Computers & Technology

Networking & Cloud Computing

Glossary for international communications (Communications in a changing world)

Media Institute

As the executive director of Freedom House for twenty-one years and now its Senior Scholar in International Communications, Leonard R. Sussman has had the extraordinary opportunity of both leading and serving an organization that has been at the center of the struggle for freedom for more than sixty years. Founded by Eleanor Roosevelt, Wendell Willkie, and other visionary Americans, both Democratic and Republican, Freedom House has championed worthy causes from the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, to the new democracies that have emerged around the world since the 1990s. In this engrossing memoir of his adventures with courageous men and women in fifty-nine countries, Sussman pays tribute to those mostly unsung heroes who contributed to freedom and humanistic ideals and in some cases paid the heavy price of imprisonment, torture, or death.Among the many interesting individuals profiled are: Helen Suzman, a white parliamentarian who fought apartheid for three decades; Milovan Djilas, a leading Yugoslav anticommunist who suffered years of imprisonment; philosopher-activist Sidney Hook; Luis Muñoz Marin, Puerto Rica’s first elected native governor; Lucia Thorne, a courageous journalist who risked her life in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion; and many other journalists, politicians, activists, and intellectuals.Also included is a never-before-published 1987 interview with civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, in which Rustin compares the NAACP’s Roy Wilkins with Martin Luther King.This one-of-a-kind memoir, full of intriguing insights and vignettes, is a fascinating record of people, ideas, and history in the making.

A Passion for Freedom: My Encounters With Extraordinary People

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Prometheus

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