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When ideas mattered : a Nathan Glazer reader / Joseph & Leslie Lenkowsky, editors.

Other author/creatorDorman, Joseph, 1958- editor.
Other author/creatorLenkowsky, Leslie, 1946- editor.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, [2017]
Descriptionx, 352 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- An unreliable man / Joseph Dorman -- The melting pot and after -- America's ethnic pattern -- American Jews or American judaism? -- American epic : then and now -- Culture and achievement -- Assimilation today : is one identity enough? -- On race -- America's race paradox -- Academic freedom in the 1990's -- Impediments to integration -- In defense of preference -- Social policy -- The limits of social policy -- Reform work, not welfare -- Architecture and urbanism -- On subway graffiti in New York -- Paris-the view from New York -- The prince, the people, and the architects -- Glazer on Glazer -- My life in sociology -- Commentary-the early years -- On being deradicalized -- Neoconservative from the start -- Glazer on sociology -- Tocqueville and Riesman -- Appraisals -- America's leading neo-conservative social democrat E. J. Dionne, Jr -- A beautiful mind / Mark Lilla -- "A young man at the periphery of the profession" / Peter Skerry -- A sociologist for all seasons / Jackson Toby -- Connecting the world of thought / Reed Ueda -- Contributors -- Index.
General noteIncludes index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: When ideas mattered New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, [2017] 9781412863797
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2016026856
ISBN9781412864169 (hardcover)
ISBN141286416X (hardcover)

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