Bruce Herschensohn

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Bruce Herschensohn
Herschensohn in 1973
Born
Stanley Bruce Herschensohn

(1932-09-10)September 10, 1932
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
DiedNovember 30, 2020(2020-11-30) (aged 88)
OccupationPolitical commentator
SpouseBunny Domenic

Stanley Bruce Herschensohn (September 10, 1932 – November 30, 2020) was an American conservative

Pepperdine University School of Public Policy in Malibu, California.[2][3]

Herschensohn quickly rose to prominence in the

Reagan administration
.

Previously, Herschensohn had been a Distinguished Fellow at the

Early life and career

Herschensohn attended University High School in Los Angeles. He then joined the United States Air Force and served 1951–1952.

Political campaigns

Herschensohn casting his vote in the 1986 U.S. Senate election.

Unsuccessful 1986 U.S. Senate primary campaign

In 1986, Herschensohn unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for the United States Senate seat held by Democrat Alan Cranston. He finished far ahead of the crowded pack in most of Southern California[6] but finished second statewide to Silicon Valley Representative Ed Zschau, who won the nomination by plurality.[citation needed]

1992 U.S. Senate election

In 1992, when Cranston retired, Herschensohn won the Republican nomination narrowly, defeating U.S. Representative Tom Campbell, a more moderate Republican who had been on the faculty of Stanford University and who had been elected to Zschau's former Congressional seat. Herschensohn received 956,136 votes (38.2 percent) to Campbell's 895,970 (35.8 percent). The remaining 417,848 ballots (16.7 percent) went to Mayor Sonny Bono of Palm Springs, also a relative moderate. During the primary campaign and afterwards, Herschensohn became a close friend of Bono and encouraged his former rival to seek election to the United States House of Representatives in 1994.[citation needed]

Herschensohn lost the

Elizabeth Emken
topped it in the 2012 California Senate race.

Career

Authorship

  • The Gods of Antenna, Arlington House. (1976)
  • Lost Trumpets: A Conservative's Map to America's Destiny, The Claremont Institute Press, Claremont, California. (1994)
  • Hong Kong at the Handover (Editor),
    Lexington Books
    , Lanham, Maryland. (1999)
  • Across the Taiwan Strait: Democracy: The Bridge Between Mainland China and Taiwan (Editor), Lexington Books. (2002)
  • Passport: A Novel of The Cold War (1st ed.). New York: I Books. 2003. .
  • Taiwan : the threatened democracy. Los Angeles: World Ahead Pub. 2006. .
  • Above Empyrean : a novel of the final days of the war on Islamic terrorism (1st ed.). New York: Beaufort Books. 2008. . Retrieved December 7, 2008.
  • An American Amnesia: How the U.S. Congress Forced the Surrenders of South Vietnam and Cambodia. New York: Beaufort Books. 2010. .
  • Obama's Globe: A President's Abandonment of US Allies Around the World. New York: Beaufort Books. 2012. .
  • Author of films:[citation needed]
  • Contributor of stories to, among others:[citation needed]

Awards

Notes

  1. spoiler candidate
    .

References

External links

Party political offices
Preceded by
United States Senator from California (Class 3)
1992
Succeeded by