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About The Author
Howard Bloom has unusual credentials for writing a book that
combines science, history, politics and mass culture.
Bloom is a visiting scholar at New York University, a member of the
New York Academy of Sciences, the National Association for the
Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Society, and the
Academy of Political Science. He is founder of The International
Paleopsychology Project, and has been featured in every edition of Who's
Who In Science and Engineering since the publication's inception.
Bloom graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from New York
University. His scientific background includes: work as a biochemistry lab
assistant at one of the world's largest cancer research facilities, the Roswell
Park Memorial Cancer Research Institute in Buffalo, New York; research on
programmed learning at Rutgers University's Graduate School of Education;
and editing foundation grant proposals for the Middlesex County Mental
Health Clinic. His political experience includes writing position papers for
two winning congressional candidates, and co-founding Music In Action, the
leading anti-censorship group in the record industry during the 1980s.
In 1976, Mr. Bloom founded what Delta Airlines in-flight magazine
called "one of the most prestigious pop pr firms in the world." As president
of that company until 1988, Bloom won numerous awards, and helped shape
the careers of Prince, The Jacksons, Bette Midler, Run D.M.C., The Talking
Heads, John Cougar Mellencamp, Billy Joel, ZZ Top, George Michael, Earth,
Wind & Fire, Bob Marley, Billy Idol and Simon and Garfunkel, among others.
Bloom has been cited or profiled in New York Magazine, The LA Times,
The New York Post, Newsday, Rolling Stone and numerous other publications.
He has had over 250 articles published in outlets ranging from The Village
Voice, Omni and Cosmopolitan to The Independent Scholar, Across-Species
Comparisons and Psychopathology, and Research in Biopolitics. He has lectured
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