13 Facts About Benjamin Barber

Benjamin R Barber was an American political theorist and author, perhaps best known for his 1995 bestseller, Jihad vs McWorld, and for 2013's If Mayors Ruled the World.

Benjamin Barber was a board member of the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation.

Benjamin Barber's mother, Doris Frankel, was a playwright and wrote for television show such as All my children.

Benjamin Barber died on April 24,2017, after a four-month battle with cancer.

Benjamin Barber was a senior research scholar at The Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society of The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, the president and founder of the Interdependence Movement, and Walt Whitman Professor of Political Science Emeritus, Rutgers University.

Benjamin Barber's work examined the failure of nation-states to address global problems, and argued that cities and intercity associations are more effectively addressing shared concerns.

Benjamin Barber was an outside adviser to President Bill Clinton and a foreign policy adviser to Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign.

Benjamin Barber advised political parties and political leaders in the UK, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland and Italy on civic education and participatory institutions.

Benjamin Barber argued that the inhabitants of the Canton regarded freedom as the liberty to live under self-government and the right to be bound by own choice.

Benjamin Barber's honors included a knighthood from the French Government, the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin and the John Dewey Award.

Benjamin Barber was awarded Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Social Science Research Fellowships, honorary doctorates from Grinnell College, Monmouth University and Connecticut College, and held the chair of American Civilization at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris.

In November 2016, Benjamin Barber expressed the opinion that Black Americans who vote for Republicans vote against their own interests in an undercover video produced by controversial conservative activist group Project Veritas earlier that year.

Benjamin Barber donated $12,825 to various political campaigns between 2008 and 2016, and described himself as an experienced fundraiser in his biography.