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Paul Starr

Paul Elliot Starr (born May 12, 1949) is a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University. He is also the co-editor (with Robert Kuttner) and co-founder (with Kuttner and Robert Reich) of The American Prospect, a notable liberal magazine created in 1990. In 1994, he founded the Electronic Policy Network, or Moving Ideas, an online public policy resource. In 1993, Starr was the senior advisor for President Bill Clinton's proposed health care reform plan. He is also the president of the Sandra Starr Foundation.[1]

At Princeton University, Starr holds the Stuart Chair in Communications and Public Affairs at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Of his many publications, Starr is best known for his book The Social Transformation of American Medicine published by Basic Books in 1983.

Education and personal life[edit]

Starr earned a B.A. from Columbia University in 1970 and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University in 1978.[2][3]


Starr's first wife, Sandra Starr, died in 1998.[2] Currently, Starr lives in Princeton, New Jersey and is married to Ann Baynes Coiro. He has four children and three stepchildren.[2]

Defining the Age: Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours, edited with Julian Zelizer (Columbia University Press, 2021).

"Introduction" pp 1-27

C. Wright Mills Award for

The Social Transformation of American Medicine

for The Creation of the Media - 2005

Goldsmith Book Prize

James Hamilton Award of American College of Health Care Executives for - 1984

The Social Transformation of American Medicine

for The Social Transformation of American Medicine - 1984

Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction

Burke, Johanna, "Taking on Health Care Reform: Publishers Weekly (Aug 15 2011) Vol. 258, Issue 33, pp 21+.

Princeton faculty page

Biography from American Prospect

and Anne-Marie Slaughter on Bloggingheads.tv

Video of debate/discussion about American freedom with Starr

Irfan Khawaja, Review of Paul Starr, Freedom's Power (and two other books), Reason Papers 31 (Fall 2009)

on C-SPAN

Appearances