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A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College, Dr. Schmookler went on to earn his doctorate at the University of California at Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union in a program specially created to accommodate his comprehensive theory of cultural evolution.

Andrew Bard Schmookler is the author of the prize-winning book The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution (hardback from the University of California Press, 1984; paperback from Houghton Mifflin, 1986; second edition from SUNY Press, 1995), Out of Weakness: Healing the Wounds that Drive Us to War (Bantam Books, 1988), and Sowings and Reapings: The Cycling of Good and Evil in the Human System (Knowledge Systems, 1989). His most recently published books are The Illusion of Choice: How the Market Economy Shapes Our Destiny (SUNY Press, 1993), Fool's Gold: The Fate of Values in a World of Goods (Harper Collins, 1993), and Living Posthumously: Confronting the Loss of Vital Powers (Henry Holt and Co, scheduled for early 1997). Dr. Schmookler just completed writing two books on the moral controversies of our times: Not So Straight-and-Narrow: How Well Can we Know What's Right to Do? and Loose Threads on the Cosmic Loom: An Inquiry Into the Sources of Good Order.

Schmookler's commentaries on social and political issues appear regularly in the Christian Science Monitor, the Baltimore Sun, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He has been a regular commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" and "Living on Earth," and on Monitor Radio. He has appeared on such nationally broadcast programs as "The Jim Bohannon Show" and "New Dimensions Radio" to discuss his books. An interview with him was included in Bill Moyers' and Elie Wiesel's PBS television program, "Beyond Hate." In regular appearances on the nationally syndicated "Paul Gonzalez Show," on programs on Wisconsin and Illinois Public Radio, and on the regional "Mid-Day Show" from Harrisonburg, VA, Dr. Schmookler discusses with callers the cultural and moral issues now confronting the American people. He also appears weekly as the "not-Republican" in a point-counterpoint political debate on television in Virginia.

As a speaker, Schmookler has presented his ideas to audiences at diverse places such as Harvard University, St. John's College in Annapolis, Findhorn in Scotland, as Presidential Lecturer at the University of Montana, the Institute for Noetic Sciences in Washington and New York, and at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. Dr. Schmookler has taught at, among other places, Georgetown University and Prescott College. He has served as member of the "Global Problems and Opportunities Group" at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. In 1985, Andrew Bard Schmookler was selected by Esquire Magazine as "one of the men and women under forty who are changing the nation." He lives in the mountains of Virginia with his wife and three children.