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Wilson Carey McWilliams (2 September 1933 – 29 March 2005), son of Carey McWilliams, was a political scientist with a storied career at Rutgers University. Carey McWilliams ( 13 December 1905 &ndash 27 June 1980) was an American Author, editor, and Lawyer This is a list of notable political scientists See the List of political theorists for those who study politics without using the Scientific method. Rutgers The State University of New Jersey (also known as Rutgers University) is the largest institution for higher education in the state of New Jersey He served in the 11th Airborne Division of the United States Army from 1955-1961, after which he took his Masters and Ph. The United States Army is a military organization whose primary mission is to "provide necessary forces and capabilities. D. degrees at the University of California, Berkeley. The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley There he studied under Sheldon Wolin, John Schaar and Norman Jacobson, and also recognized the influences of political theorists Leo Strauss and Bertrand de Jouvenel. Sheldon S Wolin (born August 4, 1922) is a Political theorist. John H(omer Schaar (born July 7 1928 is a Scholar and Political theorist. Leo Strauss (September 20 1899 &ndash October 18 1973 was a German -born Jewish-American political philosopher who specialized in the study of classical Bertrand de Jouvenel (October 31 1903–March 1 1987 was a French Philosopher, Political economist, and futurist. He wrote a Masters thesis on the political realism of Hans Morgenthau and Reinhold Niebuhr. Hans Joachim Morgenthau ( February 17 1904 – July 19 1980) was a pioneer in the field of International relations theory Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr ( June 21, 1892 &ndash June 1, 1971) was an American theologian. He was also active in the early stages of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the student activist group SLATE. The Free Speech Movement (FSM was a Student protest which took place during the 1964-1965 school year on the campus of the University of California Berkeley under Slate is a fine-grained foliated homogeneous, Metamorphic rock derived from an original Shale -type Sedimentary rock composed of Clay

McWilliams was author of The Idea of Fraternity in America (1973, University of California Press), for which he won the National Historical Society prize in 1974. In this book, McWilliams argued that there was an "alternative tradition" to the dominant liberal tradition in America, which he variously traced through the thought of the Puritans, the Anti-federalists, and various major and minor literary figures such as Hawthorne, Melville, Twain and Ellison. He argued that this tradition drew philosophical inspiration from ancient Greek and Christian sources manifested in an emphasis upon community and fraternity, which was properly the means to achieving a form of civic liberty. He contrasted this tradition with the liberal tradition, which conversely held that individual liberty was thought to culminate in political fraternity. A major influence on McWilliams's thought was the book Democracy in America by the French theorist Alexis de Tocqueville, and like Tocqueville, McWilliams commended to modern liberal democracy the arts of association and a chastening form of religious faith. De la démocratie en Amérique (published in two volumes the first in 1835 and the second in 1840 is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville

McWilliams was also a prolific essayist, whose works appeared in Commonweal and other journals. Commonweal is a New York City -based American journal of opinion edited and managed by lay Catholics. His essays on American elections from 1976-1998 were collected in two volumes, The Politics of Disappointment (1995, Chatham House) and Beyond the Politics of Disappointment (2000, Chatham House). He was the recipient of the John Witherspoon Award for Distinguished Service to the Humanities, conferred by the New Jersey Committee for the Humanities, and also served as a Vice-President of the American Political Science Association.

Prior to teaching at Rutgers University he taught at Oberlin College and Brooklyn College. Oberlin College is a private Liberal arts college in Oberlin Ohio. Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn New York. He was also a visiting professor at Harvard University and Haverford College. Haverford College is a highly selective private, Coeducational liberal arts college located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, a suburb At Harvard he taught the evening seminar "American Political Theory in the 19th Century" during the spring of 1998, a popular course attended by several professors including Harvey Mansfield. Harvey C Mansfield Jr (born 1932 is the William R Kenan Jr Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1962 As a visiting professor he went out of his way to connect with the students in his courses.

Recordings are available of his last class, American Political Thought since the Civil War, which was continued after his death by his daughter, Susan J. McWilliams, a Ph. D. candidate in the department of politics at Princeton University at the time and a current professor of politics at Pomona College. Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. Pomona College is a private residential liberal arts college located in Claremont California.



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