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Thomas Alden Bass (born March 9, 1951) is an American writer and professor in literature, journalism, and history.
Biography
Bass graduated with an honors
A.B.
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from the
University of Chicago
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in 1973 and earned his
Ph.D.
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in the History of Consciousness from the
University of California Santa Cruz
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in 1980. He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Blue Mountain Center, the Regents of the University of California, and the
Ford Foundation
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. He has taught literature and history at
Hamilton College
Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, Oneida County, New York. It was founded as Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1793 and was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812 in honor of inaugural trustee Alexander Hamilton, following ...
and the
University of California
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and is former director of the Hamilton in New York City Program on "Media in the Digital Age." In 2011 he taught a lecture class at Sciences Po Paris on "The Political Economy of the Media."
Currently Bass is a Professor of English and Journalism at
University at Albany, State University of New York
The State University of New York at Albany, commonly referred to as the University at Albany, UAlbany or SUNY Albany, is a public research university with campuses in Albany, Rensselaer, and Guilderland, New York. Founded in 1844, it is one ...
.
Bass has appeared on
Good Morning America
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,
CNN
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,
NPR
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,
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, and other venues to promote his books. He is the author of numerous articles for ''
Wired
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'', The ''
New York Times
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'', The ''New Yorker'', ''Smithsonian'', ''Discover'', and other magazines.
Bass currently lives in
New York City
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and
Paris
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with his wife and three children.
Publications
The 1985 publication of his book ''
The Eudaemonic Pie
''The Eudaemonic Pie'' is a non-fiction book about gambling by American author Thomas A. Bass. The book was initially published in April 1985 by Houghton Mifflin.
Overview
The book focuses on a group of University of California, Santa Cruz, ph ...
'' is believed to have motivated the passage of a Nevada law banning the use of devices to gain an advantage at casino games.
[Anderson, Ian : "Burning the Tables in Las Vegas", page 145. Huntington Press, 2003.]
In his preface to ''Camping with the Prince'', Bass states that he accompanied seven scientific expeditions into Africa from 1985 to 1987. This book focuses on African viewpoints to the African situation. It underlines the intricacy of Africa, more complex and more resilient than generally assumed by those looking at the continent from the outside. Among the African scientists presented to readers of this book are:
Oyewale Tomori
Oyewale Tomori (born 3 February 1946, Osun State, Nigeria) is a Nigerian professor of virology, educational administrator, and former vice chancellor of Redeemer's University.
Life and career
Tomori was born in Ilesa, Osun State, Nigeria on 3 F ...
and
Thomas Odhiambo. Thomas Bass also mentions in that preface that when he was a teenager he traveled along Africa's east coast, down the Congo and up West Africa.
Bibliography
*''
The Eudaemonic Pie
''The Eudaemonic Pie'' is a non-fiction book about gambling by American author Thomas A. Bass. The book was initially published in April 1985 by Houghton Mifflin.
Overview
The book focuses on a group of University of California, Santa Cruz, ph ...
'' (Houghton Mifflin, 1985; Vintage, 1986; Penguin 1991).
*''Camping with the Prince and Other Tales of Science in Africa'' (Houghton Mifflin, 1990; Penguin 1991; Moyer Bell, 1997)
*''Reinventing the Future'' (Addison-Wesley, 1994, 1995)
*''Vietnamerica: The War Comes Home'' (Soho, 1996, 1997)
*''The Predictors'' (Holt / Viking-Penguin, 1999)
*''The Spy Who Loved Us'' (Public Affairs, 2009)
Notes
External links
Official homepage
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1951 births
Living people
University at Albany, SUNY faculty
American travel writers
University of Chicago alumni
University of California, Santa Cruz alumni
American essayists
American male essayists