Win McCormack

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Win McCormack is an American publisher and editor based in Portland, Oregon .

Live and act

He is the editor-in-chief of Tin House Magazine and Tin House Books , the former editor of Oregon Magazine , and founder and treasurer of MediAmerica. He serves on the board of directors of New Perspectives Quarterly . His political and social writings have appeared in Oregon Humanities , Tin House , The Nation , The Oregonian, and Oregon Magazines . McCormack's investigative reporting on the Rajneeshee movement was a William Allen White commendation ofUniversity of Kansas and the City and Regional Magazine Association . His book You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values examines the sex scandals of Republican politicians who profess “moral values”.

As a political activist, McCormack served as chairman of the Oregon Steering Committee for Gary Hart ’s 1984 presidential campaign. He is Chairman of the Presidential Council of the Oregon Democratic Party and a member of the Barack Obama -for-President Oregon Finance Committee. McCormack was also elected as the deputy delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention . He is currently a member of the Oregon Council for the Humanities and the Oregon Tourism Commission . McCormack also sits on the board of directors of Emerson College , and is a co-founder of the Los Angeles- based Liberty Hill Foundation .

Fonts

  • You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values. Tin House Books, Portland, Oregon 2008, ISBN 978-1-135-89772-7 .
  • The Rajneesh Chronicles. Tin House Books, Portland, Oregon 2010, ISBN 978-0-9825691-9-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Win McCormack - Featured on June 16, 2001 ( Memento of September 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ NPQ Online. http://www.digitalnpq.org/about/gardels.html
  3. ^ The Nation . March 8, 2001 http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010326/mccormack
  4. ↑ http://www.amazon.com/dp/0979419867
  5. ^ Emerson College. http://www.emerson.edu/about/overseers.cfm
  6. ^ Liberty Hill Foundation. THE INSPIRATION FOR LIBERTY HILL ( Memento from August 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

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personal data
SURNAME McCormack, Win
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American publisher and editor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Portland, Oregon