Robert Moss is an Australian journalist and author. Moss was educated at the Australian National University where he gained a BA (1st class Hons.) and subsequently gained an MA. He edited The Economist's weekly Foreign Report in the early 1970s. Moss was a member of the Council for the National Association for Freedom and edited its journal, The Free Nation. Moss' Collapse of Democracy was published to coincide with the launch of NAFF, with fellow journalist Peter Jenkins in his review calling it "an inverted New Left book".[1] Moss was also involved with the right-wing Institute for the Study of Conflict. He wrote a speech for Margaret Thatcher in January 1976 attacking the Soviet Union. In response to this speech Thatcher was labelled by the Soviet Army newspaper Red Star as the "Iron Lady".[2] From 1978 to 1980, Moss co-authored the novel The Spike with Arnaud de Borchgrave;it became a best seller in 1980.[3] They also collaborated together on the narc-novel Monimbo (1983).
Publications
- Revolution in Latin America (Economist Newspaper, 1971).
- Urban Guerrilla Warfare (Institute for the Study of Conflict, 1971).
- Urban Guerrillas (MT Smith, 1972).
- Spain: Between Past and Present (Economist Newspaper, 1972).
- Ulster Debate: Report of a Study Group of the Institute for the Study of Conflict (The Bodley Head Ltd, 1972).
- Counterterrorism (Economist Newspaper, 1972).
- Chile's Marxist Experiment (David & Charles PLC, 1973).
- Revolutionary Challenges in Spain (Institute for the Study of Conflict, 1974).
- Collapse of Democracy (MT Smith, 1975).
- Campaign to Destabilise Iran (Institute for the Study of Conflict, 1978).
- 'The Defence of Freedom' in Dr. K. W. Watkins (ed.), In Defence of Freedom (London: Cassell, 1978), pp. 138-154.
Notes
- ^ Phillip Whitehead, The Writing on the Wall. Britain in the Seventies (London: Michael Joseph, 1985), p. 214.
- ^ John Campbell, Margaret Thatcher. Volume One: The Grocer's Daughter (London: Jonathan Cape, 2000), p. 353.
- ^ "Behind the best sellers Arnaud de Borchgrave and Robert Moss", The New York Times, 1980-06-22.
