Arnold Beichman, a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and
Peace, Stanford University, since 1982, was born in New York City on May 17, 1913. He
is a writer and former journalist as well as political scientist.

He received his bachelor and master degree and doctorate in political science from
Columbia University and taught at the University of Massachusetts, University of British
Columbia, University of Calgary and as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University.   
He also has lectured at the University of Tokyo, University  of Hamburg, University of
Wurzburg, Harvard University and McGill University, University of Victoria and Royal
Roads Military College in Canada.

Beichman is the author of five books:  The Other State Department; Herman Wouk:  The
Novelist as Social Historian; a biography. Yuri Andropov;  The Long Pretense: Soviet
Treaty Diplomacy 1917-1990, with a preface by William F. Buckley and Nine Lies About
America, with a foreword by Tom Wolfe.  The latter was republished in November 1992
with a new introduction under the title, Anti-Americanism:  Its Causes and
Consequences. He edited a scholarly critique  on the CNN's Cold War: Issues and
Controversy.

Prior to his career as an academician, he was a labor editor, AFL-CIO correspondent at
the United Nations and a foreign correspondent.  As a reporter, he covered events such
as the Algerian rebellion (Newsweek), the uprising in the Belgian Congo, (Christian
Science Monitor and New York Post) the war in Vietnam (New York Herald Tribune), the
Nigerian civil war (International Herald Tribune) and the 1965 war in Yemen (New York
Herald Tribune.) In 1966, he was invited by then Senator Robert F. Kennedy to
accompany him to South Africa but the then Pretoria government denied him a visa. He
was also denied a visa by the former Soviet Union in 1985 following publication of his
co-authored biography of Yuri V. Andropov.

He also has written for numerous academic journals and popular publications. His
articles have appeared among others in the New York Times Magazine and Book
Review, Wall Street Journal, London Daily Telegraph, Commentary, Encounter, National
Review, New York Magazine, AFL-CIO News, American Spectator, Free China Journal
and the Los Angeles Times. He has also been a guest on many television and radio
shows, including "Johnny Carson" and "Firing Line."  Dr. Beichman has been a regular
columnist for the Washington Times since its founding and appears regularly in the
Weekly Standard.  He is a former vice-president and trustee of the Philadelphia Society.
He led an effort to have the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall declared World
Freedom Day, which President G. W. Bush proclaimed on November 9, 2001.

Recent articles about Arnold Beichman include a profile by David Brooks from the
Weekly Standard and a Question and Answer Session in the National Review.

An additional resource for finding his published works can be found at Amazon.com