Beyond The Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City

Nathan Glazer was born in New York City on February 25, 1923. He graduated from City College in 1944. He became an urban sociologist. He was an editor at the magazines Commentary and The Public Interest and at Doubleday Anchor Books. He served on presidential task forces on urban affairs and education, and taught at Bennington College, Smith show more College, the University of California at Berkeley, and Harvard University. He wrote or edited more than a dozen books including The Lonely Crowd written with David Riesman and Reuel Denney, Beyond the Melting Pot written with Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Affirmative Discrimination, We Are All Multiculturalists Now, and From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City. He died on January 19, 2019 at the age of 95. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the senior U.S. senator from New York. First elected in 1976 and reelected three times since then, he was previously a member of the cabinet or sub-cabinet of Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford. He has also been U.S. ambassador to India and U.S. representative to the United Nations. Moynihan has taught at many show more universities and is the author or editor of eighteen books. He is the recipient of numerous honors and honorary degrees. show less