{"name": "Benjamin Barber", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Benjamin R. Barber (August 2, 1939 \u2013 April 24, 2017) was an American political theorist and author, perhaps best known for his 1995 bestseller, *Jihad vs. McWorld*, and for 2013's *If Mayors Ruled the World* as well as the classic of democratic theory, 1984's *Strong Democracy* (revised in 2004). He became a top-level international consultant on participatory democracy as well as an adviser to Bill Clinton and Howard Dean.\r\n\r\n\r\n**Source**: <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Barber\">Benjamin Barber</a> on Wikipedia (Wikipedia contributors, <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>)."}, "personal_name": "Barber, Benjamin R.", "death_date": "24 Apr 2017", "alternate_names": ["Benjamin R. Barber"], "photos": [8036312], "birth_date": "2 Aug 1939", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "remote_ids": {"viaf": "32008504", "wikidata": "Q817665", "isni": "0000000081108195", "goodreads": "77240", "imdb": "nm1674857", "lc_naf": "n50021104", "opac_sbn": "TO0V087723"}, "key": "/authors/OL401527A", "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-07-31T22:04:29.304872"}}