Notes on Contributors
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adolph augustus berle, jr. (1895–1971) was on the faculty of Columbia Law School and a member of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Brain Trust, which shaped the New Deal. He was assistant secretary of state to Latin America during World War II and, after the war, ambassador to Brazil from 1945 to 1946. His books include Modern Corporation and Private Property (1933), Tides of Crisis (1957), and Power without Property (1959).
franz boas (1859–1948), a noted anthropologist, immigrated to the United States in 1896. He lectured at Columbia University for 41 years, establishing there the first PhD program in anthropology in the United States. He also worked as an assistant curator at American Museum of Natural History. His books include The Mind of Primitive Man (1911) and Anthropology and Modern Life (1928).
richard hofstadter (1916–70), DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University, was one of the nation’s most distinguished historians. He authored and coauthored 14 books, among which were the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Reform (1955) Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963), and The Paranoid Style in American Politics and other Essays (1965).
alvin johnson (1874–1971), the first director and then president of the New School for Social Research, established the University in Exile, a faculty of scholars rescued from totalitarian Europe, which became the New School’s Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science. An economist, assistant editor of the New Republic, and associate editor of the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, he was also the founder of Social Research.
erich kahler (1885–1970), a Jewish scholar forced to flee Germany in 1933, was the author of numerous works, including The Tower and the Abyss: An Inquiry into the Transformation of Man (1957) and a history of the German people, entitled Der Deutsche Charakter in der Geschichte Eumpas (1937). His work addressed the changing roles of science, technology, and history, and he also dealt with the role of the Jews in world history. After emigrating to the United States, he held numerous positions, including at the New School for Social Research, Princeton University, and Columbia University.
ira katznelson, a former dean of the New School’s Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, is Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History at Columbia University and president of the Social Science Research Council. His 2013 book, Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time, has been awarded the Bancroft, Woodrow Wilson, Sidney Hillman, and J. David Greenstone Book Prizes. [End Page 263]
siegfried kracauer (1889–1966) was a Jewish German writer, journalist, sociologist, cultural critic, and film theorist. In 1933 he was forced to leave Germany for Paris, and subsequently emigrated to the United States in 1941, where he worked for, among other institutions, the Museum of Modern Art and Columbia University. His books include From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (1947), a landmark publication in cinema studies.
harold d. lasswell (1902–78) was a political scientist who brought psychology and psychoanalysis to bear on his work in behavioral political science. He taught or researched at such institutions as the University of Chicago, United States Library of Congress, Yale University, and City University of New York. His books include World Politics and Personal Insecurity (1935), Psychopathology and Politics (1930), and Power and Personality (1948).
emil lederer (1882–1939), a Bohemian-born German economist and sociologist, was forced out of his position at Humboldt University of Berlin in 1933 for being Jewish. Having fled the country, he helped Alvin Johnson create the University in Exile, which became the Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science at the New School, and served as its first dean and as a professor until his death in 1939. His books include Technical Progress and Unemployment: An Inquiry into the Obstacles to Economic Expansion (1931) and State of the Masses: The Threat of the Classless Society (1939).
thomas mann (1875–1955) was a German-born novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929. He was exiled to Switzerland in 1933 and moved to the United States in 1939. Among his many notable books are Buddenbrooks...
