Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Sacvan Bercovitch, a native of Montreal, is Profcssl,r of English and (\,mparative Literature at Columbia University. His most recent ... contributiun tl) the Review was an essay on Puritan rhetoric and the seard1 f,.1ran :-\mt:rican identity (VI/ 2). Since then he has published two more books: Puritan Origins of the American Self (1975) and The Amt>rican Jeremiad (1978). In 1978-79 he was a Fellow in the Center for Advanced Studv in the lkhavioral Sciences at Stanford. His contribution to this number l;f the Review is the keynote address delivered at the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for American Studies. held at Concordia University , Montreal, in the fall of 1978. Robert D. Cuff, who teaches history at York University, is a frequent contributor to the Review. His most recent review essay, on the managerial revolution in American business, appeared in lO/ l. N.F. Dreisziger is an Assistant Professor of History at the Royal Military College of Canada. He has published a number of essays on North American and European subjects in such journals as Journal of Modern Histor_i; New York Histor_}'~ East European Quarterly, and Canadian Slavonic Papers. He is now completing a book, in collaboration with M. L. Kovacs et al., m the "History of Canada's Peoples" series. Kenneth M. Glazier, who recently retired as Chief Librarian of the University of Calgary, is a Fellow of the Institute of Canadian Bankers. Robin P. Hoople is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Manitoba. Co-founder and former co-editor of MOSAIC, his major interests are in American Romanticism and American realism and naturalism. His publications include a recent article on Whitman's Song of Myself. J.A. Laponce is Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He has published three books: The Protection of Minorities (1960), The Government of the Fifth Republic (1961), and People vs. Politics: A Study of Opinions, Attitudes and Perceptions in Vancouver Burrard, 196365 (1969). He has to his credit numerous essays on election studies, ethnic conflicts, and "the perceptual landscape of politics~· He is at work on studies of Left and Right in politics and on the spatial behavior of linguistic groups. Jeanette C. Lauer is an Instructor in History at the Florissant Valley Community College. She has published a chapter in a book on stressful experiences in Jacksonian America, an essay comparing George Washington and Mao Tse-Tung as charismatic leaders, and has an essay forthcl)Ining on fashion and the conflict between the sexes in the Journal