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RARE "Social Critic" Marcus Raskin Hand Signed 2.5X5 Card:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Social Critic" Marcus Raskin Hand Signed 2.5X5 Card. 

30, 1934 – December 24, 2017) was a prominent American social critic, political

activist, author, and philosopher, working for progressive social change in the

United States. He was the co-founder, with Richard Barnet, of the progressive think tank, the Institute for Policy

Studies in Washington, DC. He was also a professor of public

policy at George Washington

University’s School of Public Policy and Public Administration. Raskin

was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the second son of Russian Jewish immigrants. His parents, Ben Raskin and

Anna Goodman Raskin, owned a plumbing store in Milwaukee, where his father

worked as a master plumbing contractor. At the age of 16, Raskin left home to

study at New York's Juilliard School with Rosina Lhévinne and

Lee Thompson. He abandoned a career in piano to study at the University of Chicago.

There Raskin studied with Rexford Guy Tugwell, an

economist and member of FDR’s Brain Trust, and Quincy Wright, a legal scholar for whom Raskin served as an

assistant during his law school years. He graduated from the University of

Chicago with a B.A. in liberal arts in 1954 and from the University of Chicago

Law School with a Juris Doctor in 1957.

Raskin moved to Washington, D.C. in 1958, where he became a legislative counsel

to a group of liberal congressmen, including Democrats Robert Kastenmeier from

Wisconsin and James Roosevelt from

California, the oldest son of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Raskin soon became the secretary for the Liberal Project, a group

of House liberals, organized by Kastenmeier and Roosevelt into a liberal

leadership group. As the secretary, Raskin linked the House members with

notable intellectuals, including sociologist David Riesman, historian H. Stuart Hughes, and former finance advisor to Franklin D.

Roosevelt, James Warburg. In 1961,

Raskin became McGeorge Bundy's assistant

on national security affairs and disarmament as a member of the Special Staff

of the National

Security Council. In 1962, he was a member of the U.S. delegation to

an 18-nation disarmament conference in Geneva. Tensions with Bundy led to

Raskin’s reassignment in the Bureau of the Budget (now the Office of Management and

Budget), where he continued his service on the Presidential Panel on

Education. On the panel, Raskin wrote papers on the consequences of technology

and the need for democratic education and scientific research. 

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