In November, 2016 she was named one of the city's Literary Lions by the New York Public Library. She is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up there, in Massapequa Park, Long Island, and in Rutherford, New Jersey. She has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, and has taught in the history department at Yale University.īefore entering the Reagan White House, Noonan was a producer and writer at CBS News in New York, and an adjunct professor of Journalism at New York University. In 2010 she was given the Award for Media Excellence by the living recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor the following year she was chosen as Columnist of the Year by The Week. A political analyst for NBC News, she is the author of nine books on American politics, history and culture, from her most recent, “The Time of Our Lives,” to her first, “What I Saw at the Revolution.” She is one of ten historians and writers who contributed essays on the American presidency for the book, “Character Above All.” Noonan was a special assistant and speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan. Which real celebrities should be fictionally skewered in Kate's completely fictional work We discuss Kim and Kanye, Jay Z and Beyonce, George Lucas, and more. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2017. On today's special episode of Struggle Session Jack and Leslie are joined by writer Kate Shapiro to discuss her new work of satirical fiction Kill The Rich. Peggy Noonan is an opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal where her column, "Declarations," has run since 2000. He wrote-it is the epigraph of Frank Dikötter’s “The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962-1976”-“Who are our friends? Who are our enemies? That is the main question of the revolution.” stirring up trouble, sabotaging socialist productive forces.” The party had been “infiltrated” by pragmatists and revisionists. The problem wasn’t his disastrous ideology, it was, he wrote, “feudal forces full of hatred towards socialism. In the mid-1960s Mao Zedong, suspicious of those around him, wary of the moves of erstwhile Soviet allies, damaged by a disastrous famine his policies had caused, surveyed the scene and decided it was time for a little mayhem. But what I find myself thinking of these days is the ritual humiliations, the “struggle sessions.” No one knows how many died historians say up to two million. The Chinese Cultural Revolution was a bitter thing, a catastrophe comparable in its societal effects, and similar in its historical feel, to the terrors of Stalin and the French Revolution. Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution in China, 1966.
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