Oral history interview with John D. Steinbruner [electronic resource], 1998.

Biographical Note

Psychologist

Scope and Contents

Childhood: born Denver, Colorado, Catholic upbringing; Stanford University: B.A. cognitive psychology, 1959-1963; University of Freiburg, Germany: studies in philosophy, 1963-1964; Massachusetts Institute of Techology (MIT): Ph.D. political science, 1964-1968; professor, psychology, MIT, Harvard University, Yale University; associaton with Brookings Institution, 1978: director, Foreign Policy Studies Program, development in Cold War, nuclear weapons studies, funding from Carnegie Corporation; role of private philanthropy in American life; reminiscences of colleagues.

Subjects

• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Cooperative Threat Reduction Program of the U.S. Department of Defense.
• Endowments--United States.
• Interviews.
• National security--United States.
• Oral histories.
• Political scientists--Interviews.
• Steinbruner, John D., 1941---Interviews.
• Zane, Sharon interviewer.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Carnegie Corporation of New York.