I couldn’t find “the Harvard government”—then or now—even you gave me a map and a flashlight. But I did (quite by chance) happen into a personal acquaintanceship with Ed Banfield back when I was a young newspaper reporter—I found him a lifeline, a breath of fresh air. I don’t think it be helpful to describe the Ed-of-that-time as “conser…
I couldn’t find “the Harvard government”—then or now—even you gave me a map and a flashlight. But I did (quite by chance) happen into a personal acquaintanceship with Ed Banfield back when I was a young newspaper reporter—I found him a lifeline, a breath of fresh air. I don’t think it be helpful to describe the Ed-of-that-time as “conservative” so much as “contrarian (I think he hated John Kenneth Galbraith: hmph, talk about gaseous pretension….). Likewise I thought Banfield-Wilson “City Politics” far more helpful than almost anything else hand for my reporter life. Ed did get more rancid later (but a battered copy of “Moral Basis” is tucked away in these bookshelves somewhere). If we need to find a soulmate for Banfield, maybe a better choice would be Saul Alinsky.
I couldn’t find “the Harvard government”—then or now—even you gave me a map and a flashlight. But I did (quite by chance) happen into a personal acquaintanceship with Ed Banfield back when I was a young newspaper reporter—I found him a lifeline, a breath of fresh air. I don’t think it be helpful to describe the Ed-of-that-time as “conservative” so much as “contrarian (I think he hated John Kenneth Galbraith: hmph, talk about gaseous pretension….). Likewise I thought Banfield-Wilson “City Politics” far more helpful than almost anything else hand for my reporter life. Ed did get more rancid later (but a battered copy of “Moral Basis” is tucked away in these bookshelves somewhere). If we need to find a soulmate for Banfield, maybe a better choice would be Saul Alinsky.
:-)
Let me see if I can find a copy of "City Politics"