Area of Expertise: Politics, presidency, campaigns, the religious right, American culture, baby boom generation, race relations, social movements, civil rights, public relations, communication, mass media, popular culture

Additional Information: Leonard Steinhorn teaches political communication, public relations, media studies, and courses on American culture and the modern presidency. He is author of the critically acclaimed book The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy (St. Martin's Press, 2006). He coauthored By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race (1999), which received favorable reviews. Steinhorn writes frequently about politics, presidential campaigns, race relations, social movements, American history, youth issues, generations, mass media, and trends in popular culture. His work has appeared in books and scholarly publications as well as in magazines and newspapers including Salon.com, the Washington Post, Politico, International Herald Tribune, Baltimore Sun, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, among others. From 1999 to 2001, he was a contributing editor of the Internet political journal TomPaine.com. In 2001 he joined the board of the history and politics Internet site HistoryNewsNetwork.org, where he regularly blogs and contributes articles. He comments on the presidency, political campaigns, and the media's role in politics and elections. CBS News, MSNBC, CNN, NBC, Fox, PBS, NPR, WTOP, BBC, AP, the Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Los Angeles Times have quoted him, and he is the political analyst for Washington, D.C.'s, WTTG-Fox 5 News. Before joining American University, he was a campaign and congressional speechwriter, political consultant, and an advocate for human rights, civil liberties, and racial tolerance. His previous positions included speechwriter for the House Judiciary Committee and editor of the religious-right monitoring newsletter, Right Wing Watch. Steinhorn's approach to teaching became internationally visible when CNN came weekly to cover his course on the 2000 election, Presidential Campaign 2000: Inside the War Room and the Newsroom. The course was covered by Washington, D.C.’s, NBC affiliate and WTTG-Fox 5 during the 2004 and 2008 elections, respectively.

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