In Search of Nixon

The author of In Search of Nixon, Bruce Mazlish, a professor of history, received his Ph. D. from Columbia University. Western intellectual and cultural history as well as science and technology are his areas of interest and expertise. He is also intrigued with the culture of capitalism and history of the sciences. He is an authority in the interdisciplinary field of psychohistory as well as historical methodology. He has recently tried at an effort to conceptualize global history. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 1986 he was awarded the Toynbee Prize, an international prize in social science. Some of his other works include The Uncertain Sciences, The Fourth Discontinuity, The Co-evolution of Humans and Machines, and A New Science: The Breakdown of Connections and the Birth of Sociology.


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