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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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