(1962) from Harvard Law School. Next, he spent nine years working as an associate professor at Harvard Business School and also taught at Yale University. Meanwhile, he started his seven-year-long tenure at the real estate firm Cabot, Cabot & Forbes. It was in 1980, when he bought the literary mag The Atlantic Monthly, which he chaired from 1980 to 1999. By the time he sold the magazine in 1999, had already acquired U.S. News & World Report and he still serves as its editor-in-chief. Eventually, Mort Zuckerman has turned into a frequent commentator on world affairs, major column writer, and active political supporter. When it comes to politics, he has backed Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential election, but four years later he supported Mitt Romney instead.
