Henry Matthew Drucker was an American political scientist and university fund-raiser, who spent the entirety of his professional career in the United Kingdom.
10 Facts About Henry Drucker
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Henry Drucker was born in Paterson, New Jersey, the son of Arthur Drucker and his wife Frances.
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Henry Drucker grew up in Rutherford, where his father owned a department store, and attended Rutherford High School.
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Spurning the opportunity to return to the United States, Henry Drucker was appointed as a lecturer in politics at the University of Edinburgh in the same year he completed his doctorate.
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Henry Drucker's lectures were well attended and he was noted for introducing new teaching techniques, such as leading groups of students on reconnaissance missions during important parliamentary by-elections to gather on-the-spot data and meet party campaigners.
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Henry Drucker's first published work was The Political Uses of Ideology, an adaptation of his PhD thesis, which examined Marx's concept of ideology and contrasted it with how certain notions of the term are themselves used by ideological actors in the modern era.
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Henry Drucker concluded that both of these elements are necessary for the propagation of Labour's core values, but that ethos is especially important for understanding the party's stories and myths, its appreciation of its past, its relationship with the trade unions, and above all its latent conservatism, which in Henry Drucker's evaluation has prevented it from becoming the party of the future that progressive-minded modernisers wish it to be.
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Henry Drucker was a bit like a Bill Clinton figure.
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Henry Drucker was married from 1975 until his death to Nancy Livia Newman, a fellow lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and the daughter of NBC newscaster Edwin Newman.
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Henry Drucker suffered increasing health problems throughout his final decade, and two heart bypass operations encouraged him to scale down his professional activities.