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Sociologist Nathan Glazers remarkably long and productive career as a New York intellectual spans seven decades from the Great Depression era to the late twentieth century. A voracious intellect with a perpetual sense of curiosity, he defies easy labelling. When Ideas Mattered is a critical volume, but it also contains autobiographical essays Glazer has written over the years to explain the evolution of his own thought.

The book is a sensitive and nuanced examination of a towering intellectual figure on the American scene. It is organized into sections corresponding to Glazers wide ranging interests: ethnicity, race, social policy and urbanism, and architecture. He has written on the myth of the American melting pot, the nature of American communism, the perils and importance of affirmative action, and the limits of social policy. Because Glazers work has influenced succeeding generations of thinkers and scholars in a number of fields, the editors have included appraisals and assessments by several of these writers written especially for this volume.

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WHEN IDEAS MATTERED WHEN IDEAS MATTERED A NATHAN GLAZER READER JOSEPH DORMAN - photo 1
WHEN IDEAS MATTERED
WHEN IDEAS MATTERED
A NATHAN GLAZER READER
JOSEPH DORMAN
&
LESLIE LENKOWSKY
EdiTORS
First published 2017 by Transaction Publishers Published 2017 by Routledge 2 - photo 2
First published 2017 by Transaction Publishers
Published 2017 by Routledge
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Library of Congress Catalog Number: 2016026856
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Dorman, Joseph, 1958- editor. | Lenkowsky, Leslie, 1946- editor.
Title: When ideas mattered : a Nathan Glazer reader / Joseph Dorman and Leslie Lenkowsky, editors.
Description: New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, [2017] | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016026856 (print) | LCCN 2016041830 (ebook) | ISBN 9781412864169 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781412863797 (eBook) | ISBN 9781412863797
Subjects: LCSH: Social sciences--United States--History--20th century. | Sociologists--United States. | Intellectuals--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century. | Glazer, Nathan.
Classification: LCC HM477.U6 W44 2017 (print) | LCC HM477.U6 (ebook) | DDC 301.0973/0904--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016026856
ISBN 13: 978-1-4128-6416-9 (hbk)
For Nat and Lochi Glazer, who still matter
Contents
Joseph Dorman
E. J. Dionne, Jr.
Mark Lilla
Peter Skerry
Jackson Toby
Reed Ueda
The editors gratefully acknowledge the following publishers and publications for permission to use previously published material:
Annual Review of Sociology for My Life in Sociology, Vol. 38 (2012): 116.
Commentary for Americas Ethnic Pattern: Melting Pot? or Nation of Nations, Vol. 15 (April 1953): 4018; The Limits of Social Policy, Vol. 52 (September 1971): 5158; On Being Deradicalized, Vol. 50 (October 1970): 7480.
Society for American Jewry or American Judaism? Vol. 28 (NovemberDecember 1991): 1420; Tocqueville and Riesman, Vol. 37 (MayJune 2000): 2633.
National Affairs, Inc. for American Epic: Then and Now, The Public Interest 130 (Winter 1998): 320; Culture and Achievement, The Public Interest 140 (Summer 2000): 4963; On Subway Graffiti in New York, The Public Interest 54 (Winter 1979): 311; Paris The View from New York, The Public Interest 74 (Winter 1984): 3151; Neoconservative from the Start, The Public Interest 159 (Spring 2005): 1217; Reform Work, Not Welfare, The Public Interest 40 (Summer 1975): 310.
The American Scholar for The Prince, the People, and the Architects, Vol. 59 (Autumn 1990): 50718.
The New Republic for In Defense of Preference, Vol. 218 (April 6, 1998): 1825.
William Mitchell Law Review for Academic Freedom in the 1990s, Vol. 22 (1996): 47990.
Encounter (London) for Americas Race Paradox, Vol. 31 (October 1968): 916. Accessible at https://www.unz.org/Pub/Encounter1968oct-00009?View=PDF (November 23, 2015).
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, for Assimilation Today: Is One Identity Enough? from Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What it Means to be American, ed. Tamar Jacoby (New York: Basic Books, 2004), 3143. Copyrighted by Basic Books, 2003.
Brookings Institution Press for Impediments to Integration, in The African American Predicament, ed. Christopher H. Foreman, Jr. (Washington, DC: Brookings Institute Press, 1999), 97115.
Temple University Press for Commentary: The Early Years, Commentary in American Life, ed. Murray Friedman (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2005), 3851. Copyrighted by Temple University Press, 2005.
As a general rule, the editors have left the articles as they appeared in print, some, decades ago. As a result, statistical materials, word usages, references to public figures and scholars, and other material may seem dated or overtaken by subsequent events. However, in all cases, we believe the quality of the arguments made in the articles and their importance for illuminating Nathan Glazers career, as well as stimulating thinking today, warrant their inclusion in this volume.
The editors wish to thank Patricia Martin-Sanchez, Colin Ashwood, Dan Choi, and Alex Goulder for locating, copying, preparing, and proofing the articles in this volume for publication. We are also grateful for the encouragement and support provided by Mary E. Curtis and her associates at Transaction Press throughout the development and production of this book, as well as for the generosity of E. J. Dionne, Jr., Mark Lilla, Peter Skerry, Jackson Toby, and Reed Ueda in making time in their very busy lives for this project.
Last but not least, we wish to express our unbounded appreciation to Nathan Glazer. Notwithstanding the challenges that come with age, he was an active participant in this effort from the very beginning, expertly guiding us through a bibliography of his works that spans seventy years, offering comments and suggestions on various iterations of the contents, and even proofreading the final draft to catch typographical errors. In other words, he did for us what he has done for so many others in the past and that is one of many reasons for this tribute.


Joseph Dorman
Nathan Glazers career spans seven decades in the fields of sociology, public policy, politics, and urban studies. He has written on the myth of the American melting pot, the nature of American communism, the unsavory methods of Senator Joseph McCarthy, the perils and importance of affirmative action, the social failure of modern architecture, and the limits of social policy. Glazers intellect is voracious; his mind is perpetually curious, open, and unpredictable.
Politically, Glazer is equally unplaceable, a man initiated into an obscure and tiny group of American Marxist Zionists as a college student during the Depression, who became a staunch anti-Communist in the postwar years, then a critic of the New Left and liberalism in the 1960s. A vocal foe of affirmative action in the 1970s, he was decried as a neoconservative by the left only to change his views in the 1990s, leading many conservatives to see him as a wholly unreliable ally.
And they were on to something. It is precisely Glazers unreliabilitya refusal to follow a party linethat defines both his social science work and his political views. In his acute mind, theoretical purity can never match the messiness, the confusion of facts that the world presents to us.
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