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Mary was born in Boston, just after the blizzard of '47.
She attended parochial school and enjoyed Girl Scouts and summer trips to
Hampton Beach. She is the daughter of John P Whalen (Harvard '22), who
was a science teacher in the Boston Public Schools and
Patricia Cahill Whalen (Emmanuel '36), a stay-at-home Mom.
In 1970 Mary got a job with the Social Security Administration for which
she trained in Flatbush, Brooklyn, and became a supervisor in the Lower
Manhattan office, where she watched the Twin Towers being built.
Weekends were spent in Lincoln Center
with Standing Room Only tickets. - Yes, we still need our high culture -
one of the best parts of being human.
In 1980 Mary moved to Australia and obtained a PhD in Politics.
For twenty years she had an extremely happy marriage, to George
Maxwell, a pediatrician, who died of cancer in 2000. After that
she attempted law school and has only one semester to complete.
In 2001 she was a Visiting Scholar at Emory University Law School
Dept of Law and Religion, and in 2002 she earned a summa cum laude
for a course in Diplomatic and Consular Law at the University of
Mannheim, Germany.
Mary Maxwell has served as president of the Australian Institute of International
Affairs, South Australian branch, and vice-president of the national organization.
From 1988 to 1993 Mary lived in the U.A.E. while George was helping
to found a medical school there. She was thrilled to direct a children's choir in
AbuDhabi. Both Maxwells found Arab people to be exactly like the rest of us.
Mary has kept her nose to the grindstone as a researcher and writer. Among her books
published by State University of New York Press are Morality among
Nations and The Sociobiological Imagination. She also runs a website for
high-schoolers - www.o-mores.com, under the name Mary Owl.
Maxwell's entry into politics at the age of 59 has everything to do with
Congress's sellout of the Constitution. The Founders of our nation gave
predominant power to the legislature; indeed the legislature can sack both the
executive and the judiciary. So why does Congress pretend to be weak?
See other portals on this website for discussion!
Also see the Events portal to note that Mary is running her campaign
without ‘benefit' of a public relations advisor. On weekdays she will be very
accessible in Concord, where she lives, and elsewhere in
New Hampshire on weekends. Please invite her to your front porch for a lemonade.
There needn't be a layer of professional politicians between citizen and government,
need there?
Here is a photo of Mary Maxwell (left) taken in Lisbon in winter '03 at the great
Momument to the Explorers.
Kindly check back later for new photos.
From Book Reviews of Mary Maxwell's Morality Among Nations:
Maxwell’s book has the intellectual clarity of a single, crystal bell. Every point is argued with logic, precision, and parsimony…[T]heorizing about international morality has long needed a well-informed critic with a clear, contemporary mind. Mary Maxwell is that person.
—Prof Thomas Wiegele, University of Illinois.
There is a great deal to rejoice about with the appearance of Morality Among Nations. I celebrate her work, recommend it as essential to all students of politics and human relationships, and state for the record that I will not lend my copy to anyone.
—Joseph Montville, former diplomat, US State Dept: (currently at Center for Strategic and Internat’l Studies).
This is a very original approach to international relations in that it employs what is scientifically known about human nature as opposed to merely intuitively understood.
—Edward O. Wilson,
Harvard University
