Robert Mason

Robert Mason is a native of Walsall, in the West Midlands of England. He studied at the University of Oxford, as well as spending time as a visiting student at Yale University. In 2004-2005 he was a fellow at the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress. Currently he is currently Professor of Twentieth-Century U.S. History at the University of Edinburgh. He writes about the United States during the twentieth century, especially the country's political history. At the moment he's working on a book about Spiro Agnew, Nixon's vice president.