Seymour Lipset radically American
I want to point to a Washington Post obituary for for the Political Scientist Seymour Lipset
Political Scientist Seymour Lipset, 84; Studied Democracy and U.S. Culture - washingtonpost.com. I was very taken by his writings and have mentioned him in a couple of posts. Mostly his work dealt with the particular development of America's stabilizing middle class, and why the United States never developed a socialist party or even a true labor party. Trying to understand what the nature of America's essential idealism is. What makes up what is called American Exceptionalism, the title of one of his books and the subject of others such as "It didn't Happen Here". You should be able to look over a fairly complete list of his published monograph works by checking with Worldcat
Search results for 'Seymour Lipset'. For all the journal and journalistic work, interviews he did, that's between you and your librarian (
Seymour Lipset - Google Scholar). The Washington Post said he was president of both the American Sociological Association and the American Political Science Association, at different points. That's a hard working man right there. The Washington Post also quotes Larry Diamond as praising his "belief in 'reason, moderation, tolerance, pragmatism and restraint as the bedrock values of democracy and decent society . . .'" I had no idea Mr. Lipset was such a dangerous radical. Another thing I didn't realize was that he lived here in the DC area. For some reason I always figure interesting people live elsewhere; like California, New York, or the Hub itself: Boston. Lipset was born in New York, but since 1990 lived in Arlington, VA.
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