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Marvin Kalb
Kalb in 2001
Born	Marvin Leonard Kalb (1930-06-09)June 9, 1930 (age 94) New York City,New York, U.S.
Education	City College of New York (BA) Harvard University (MA)[1]
Occupations	News analyst Author Senior fellow of theShorenstein Center Moderator ofThe Kalb Report Senior adviser atPulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Notable credit(s)	moderator ofMeet the Press, founding director,Shorenstein Center
Relatives	Bernard Kalb (brother)

Marvin Leonard Kalb (born June 9, 1930) is an Americanjournalist. He was the founding director of theShorenstein 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 ofHarvard University. Kalb is currently a James Clark Welling Fellow atGeorge Washington University and a member of theAtlantic Community Advisory Board.

Kalb spent 30 years as an award-winning reporter^{[citation needed]} forCBS News andNBC News. Kalb was the last newsman recruited byEdward R. Murrow to join CBS News, becoming part of the later generation of the "Murrow Boys." His work at CBS landed him onRichard Nixon's"enemies list". At NBC, he served as chief diplomatic correspondent and host ofMeet the Press. During many years of Kalb's tenures at CBS and NBC, his brotherBernard worked alongside him.

Kalb has authored or coauthored many nonfiction books and two best-selling^{[citation needed]} novels (In the National Interest andThe Last Ambassador).

Kalb hostsThe Kalb Report, a monthly discussion ofmedia ethics and responsibility at theNational Press Club inWashington, D.C. sponsored byGeorge Washington University.^[2] He was a news analyst forFox News, and is a contributor toNational Public Radio andAmerica Abroad. He is currently a senior adviser at thePulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

InHaunting 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 theVietnam debacle, under what circumstances should the United States go to war? The Kalbs participated in a webcast interview of the book at thePritzker Military Library on October 27, 2011.^[3]

• Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy (2018), Brookings Institution Press,ISBN 978-0815735304
• The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956—Khrushchev, Stalin’s Ghost, and a Young American in Russia (2017), Brookings Institution Press,ISBN 9780815731610
• Imperial Gamble: Putin, Ukraine, and the New Cold War (2015),Brookings Institution Press,ISBN 978-0-8157-2664-7.
• The Road to War: Presidential Commitments Honored and Betrayed (2013), Brookings Institution Press,ISBN 978-0-8157-2493-3.
• Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from Ford to Obama (2011), Brookings Institution Press,ISBN 978-0-8157-2131-4.
• The Media and the War on Terrorism (2003), Brookings Institution Press,ISBN 978-0-8157-3581-6.^[4]
• One Scandalous Story:Clinton, Lewinsky, and Thirteen Days That Tarnished American Journalism (2001,ISBN 0-684-85939-4)
• The Nixon Memo: Political Respectability, Russia, and the Press (1994,ISBN 0-226-42299-2)
• The Last Ambassador (1981,ISBN 0-316-48222-6)
• In the National Interest (1977,ISBN 0-671-22656-8)
• Kissinger (1974,ISBN 978-0316482219)
• Roots of Involvement: the U.S. in Asia, 1784–1971 (1971,ISBN 0-393-05440-3)
• Dragon in the Kremlin: A Report on the Russian-Chinese Alliance (1961)

• About Marvin Kalb atThe Kalb Report from theGeorge Washington University website
• Marvin Kalb's Profile at Harvard University from theJohn F. Kennedy School of Government website
• Reagan Mondale debate October 21, 1984 on Wikimedia Commons
• Appearances onC-SPAN

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