Tammy Bruce
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Tammy Bruce is an author and political commentator. She also hosts a syndicated talk radio show, in the United States. She is described on her website as "an openly gay, pro-choice, gun owning, pro-death penalty, voted-for-President Reagan progressive feminist". A lifelong Democrat, she describes herself as a classical liberal.
For seven years, Bruce served as president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW) from 1990 to 1996, the longest continuous tenure in the chapter's 30-year history. She mobilized activists locally and nationally on a whole range of issues, including women's image in media, child care, health care, violence against women, economics, and domestic violence. She also served two years on the board of directors for NOW, which she heavily criticizes in her last book. During the early '90s she spearheaded the campaign to bring awareness to the sexualized violence in the book American Psycho by calling for a boycott of all other books published by Knopf for one year.
Bruce holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of Southern California. She notes on her website that her interest in politics and individual liberty was sparked during her childhood in part because of the work of authors Ray Bradbury and George Orwell, both of whom remain her favorite writers.
Books
- The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds (Prima, 2001) ISBN 0761563733
- The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values (Random House, 2003) ISBN 0761516638
- The New American Revolution: Using the Power of the Individual to Save Our Nation from Extremists (Morrow, 2005) ISBN 0060726202
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