Bruce Herschensohn
Professor, Pepperdine University
Bruce Herschensohn has been a television and radio political commentator for the last two decades. After service in the U.S. Air Force he began his own motion picture company, and then was appointed Director of Motion Pictures and Television for the United States Information Agency. During his tenure the U.S.I.A. received more awards for film and television productions than all other departments and agencies of the U.S. government combined, including the Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
In 1969, he was selected as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men in the Federal Government. He received the second-highest civilian award, the Distinguished Service Medal, and then became Deputy Special Assistant to President Nixon. He has traveled to over ninety countries, Herschensohn taught "The U.S. Image Abroad" at the University of Maryland, occupied the Nixon Chair at Whittier College teaching "U.S. Foreign and Domestic Policies" and was chairman of the board of Pepperdine University. He was appointed a member of the Reagan Transition Team.
Herschensohn was the 1992 Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in California and was defeated while winning over one million votes than the national ticket of the Party in California. He was a Fellow at the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard University for spring 1996, teaching U.S. Foreign Policy, and was a Distinguished Fellow of the Claremont Institute, 1993-2001.
He is currently teaching "The World Leadership Role of the United States" at Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy, and is an Associate Fellow of the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Center for Individual Freedom.
Herschensohn's books include "Passport: An epic novel of the Cold War", "The Gods of Antenna", "Lost Trumpets", "Hawks Without Wings", "Doves Without Conscience", "Hong Kong at the Handover", and "Across the Taiwan Strait".
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