Robert Silvers
 Robert Silvers       ( editor, deep state operative?) | |
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| Born | Robert Benjamin Silvers 1929-12-31 Mineola, New York |
| Died | 2017-03-20 (Age 87) New York City |
| Nationality | American |
| Ethnicity | Jewish |
| Alma mater | • University of Chicago • Sorbonne • Sciences Po |
| Member of | Council on Foreign Relations/Members 3, Ditchley/US |
Not to be confused with Robert P. Silvers.
Robert Benjamin Silvers was a US editor who was Director of the transatlantic American Ditchley Foundation. He attended the 1970 Bilderberg meeting.
Education
Raised on Long Island, New York, Silvers graduated from the University of Chicago in 1947 and attended Yale Law School, but he left before graduating and worked as press secretary to Connecticut Governor Chester Bowles in 1950.[1] He was sent by the U.S. Army to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe Headquarters in Paris in 1952 as a speechwriter and press aide, while finishing his education at the Sorbonne and Sciences Po. [2]
Career
He soon joined The Paris Review as an editor under the guidance of George Plimpton. He joined the editorial board of The Paris Review in 1954 and became Paris editor in 1956.[3] The magazine had strong ties to the CIA as part of the Cultural Cold War.[4]
From 1959 to 1963, he was an associate editor of Harper's Magazine in New York.
Silvers was co-editor of The New York Review of Books with Barbara Epstein for 43 years, from 1963 until she died in 2006, and was the sole editor of the paper after that until his own death in 2017. Philip Marino of Liveright Publishing wrote of him: "Like a chemist pairing ingredients to induce a specific reaction, Silvers has built his career matching the right author and subject, in hopes of generating an exciting and illuminating result."[5] Silvers edited or co-edited several essay anthologies. He appeared prominently in the 2014 documentary film about the Review, The 50 Year Argument.
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1970 | 17 April 1970 | 19 April 1970 | Switzerland Hotel Quellenhof Bad Ragaz | the 19th Bilderberg meeting, in Switzerland. |
References
- ↑ Stokes, Emily. "Lunch with the FT: Robert B Silvers", Financial Times, January 25, 2013.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120325044458/http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/03/20/robert-silvers-on-%E2%80%98the-new-york-review-of-books%E2%80%99
- ↑ Robert B. Silvers.
- ↑ https://www.vice.com/en/article/how-the-cia-infiltrated-the-worlds-literature/
- ↑ Marino, Philip. "Book Smart", The University of Chicago Magazine, University of Chicago, May–June 2012, accessed June 25, 2014.
