Introduction
Suzanne Garment(néeBloom) is an American scholar, writer, editor and attorney.
Garment is best known for her book, Scandal: The Culture of Mistrust in American Politics, and for her work as a aide to Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan working to block the 1975 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 of the United Nations that "Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination."
Education and career
Garment holds the A.B. from Radcliffe College, the M.A. from theUniversity of Sussex in the United Kingdom, the PhD in political science fromHarvard University, the J.D. and a master of laws degree in taxation from Georgetown University
She has served asa visiting scholar at the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University; special counsel to Richard Ravitch, New York Lieutenant Governorand as counsel to the Task Force on the State Budget Crisis, co-chaired by Ravitch and former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker. Before earning the J.D., she was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute;associate editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal; author of the"Capital Chronicle" column at the Wall Street Journal; andspecial assistant to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Garmenthas taught politics and public policy atYale and Harvard Universities.She was the executive editor ofJewish Ideas Daily.
Personal life
She was married to Leonard Garment, they have a daughter, Ann.
Books
- Scandal: The Culture of Mistrust in American Politics (Anchor; 1991)
- A Dangerous Place co-author withDaniel P. Moynihan (Little Brown)