American journalist
Philip Terzian (born 1950) is an American journalist and author. Since 2018 he has been a contributing writer of The Washington Examiner . Before its closing in December 2018, he was Senior Writer at The Weekly Standard , the journal of politics and culture founded in 1995, having served as Literary Editor during 2005–17. He is the author of Architects of Power: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, and the American Century (Encounter Books 2010).
Life and career
Terzian is a native of Kensington, Maryland , the son of Louise (Anderson) Terzian, an attorney and probate court judge, and L. A. Terzian, a microbiologist. His maternal grandfather, Cecil Whitaker Anderson, was an executive at American Stores in Philadelphia.[ 3] His paternal grandparents were Armenian immigrants.[ 4] Terzian attended Montgomery County, Maryland public schools, the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, and was graduated from Villanova University with a degree in English in 1973. He did graduate work at Oxford University under H.C.G. Mathew , editor of the diaries of William Gladstone , and earned a diploma in theological studies at the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Virginia .[ 1] [ 2]
He worked as a reporter and editor at The Anniston Star in Alabama , Reuters and U.S. News & World Report . During 1974–78 he was assistant editor of The New Republic . He was associate editor of the Lexington Herald in Kentucky , assistant editor of the editorial pages of the Los Angeles Times , and during 1986–92, was editor of the editorial pages at the Providence Journal .
In 1970 he was a speechwriter for Lawrence O'Brien , then chairman of the Democratic National Committee . He later wrote speeches (1978–79) for U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance .
For two decades before joining The Weekly Standard , Terzian wrote a column syndicated by the Scripps Howard News Service , and reported from dozens of foreign countries. He has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Distinguished Commentary, a Pulitzer Prize juror, and has been a media fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University . He has been a contributor to the Wall Street Journal , The New Criterion , Harper's , The Spectator , the Times Literary Supplement , London Sunday Telegraph , Commentary , the Sewanee Review and other publications. A former member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors , he is a member of the American Council on Germany and the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics . He is married and the father of two children and, among his avocations, is honorary whip of the Wolver Beagles of Middleburg, Virginia.
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