Arnold Beichman, a political scientist, writer, and former journalist, has been a visiting scholar and research fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1982. He is currently researching political events in the former Soviet Union as well as developing a biography of former vice president Henry A. Wallace. Beichman is the author of five books: The Other State Department, Herman Wouk: The Novelist as Social Historian, Yuri Andropov: New Challenge to the West (coauthored), Nine Lies about America, with a foreword by Tom Wolfe, and The Long Pretense: Soviet Treaty Diplomacy, 1917–1990, with a foreword by William F. Buckley. Nine Lies about America was republished in 1995 with a new introduction under the title Anti-American Myths: Their Causes and Consequences (Transaction, 1995). His latest book is CNN's Cold War Documentary: Issues and Controversy (Hoover Press, 1999).
Beichman is a regular columnist for the Washington Times, and has also written for the New York Times Magazine and Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, the London Daily Telegraph, Commentary, Encounter, the Weekly Standard, the National Review, the AFL-CIO News, American Spectator, and the Los Angeles Times.
In 2001, Beichman's efforts to have the work of President Ronald Reagan and those who contributed to the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, recognized were rewarded when President George W. Bush proclaimed November 9, 2001 World Freedom Day.
A founding member of the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence in Washington, D.C., he is also a former vice president and trustee of the Philadelphia Society.
Before his career as an academician, Beichman was a labor editor, a journalist at the United Nations, and a foreign correspondent. As a reporter, he covered such events as the Algerian rebellion, the uprising in the Belgian Congo, the war in Vietnam, the Nigerian civil war, and the war in Yemen.
