Steven Tucker

Steven Tucker is a UK-based writer and independent scholar whose work has appeared in print and online in the US, UK, Australia and Ireland, and who writes the regular ‘Strange Statesmen’ column in Fortean Times magazine, detailing the lives and misdeeds of history’s strangest politicians and military dictators. He is the author of over ten books about various overlapping fields such as history, politics, economics, science, folklore, mythology, medicine, fringe-beliefs and eccentrics. His latest book, ‘Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science’ (Frontline/Pen & Sword) is out now, and demonstrates how the political abuse of science in historic totalitarian dictatorships is playing out anew again today in the modern West.