The Man Who Would Be Speaker

by Steven Waldman
Politics

This article appeared in the March 1986 issue of the magazine and is available as a PDF here.

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Steven Waldman

Steven Waldman is the president and co-founder of Report for America, an initiative of The GroundTruth Project. He is the author of Sacred Liberty: America’s Long, Bloody, and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom. As senior adviser to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, he was the prime author of the landmark report Information Needs of Communities.