19 Facts About Nathan Glazer

Nathan Glazer was an American sociologist who taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and for several decades at Harvard University.

Nathan Glazer was a co-editor of the now-defunct policy journal The Public Interest.

Nathan Glazer was often considered neoconservative in his thinking on domestic policy, but remained a Democrat.

Nathan Glazer described himself as "indifferent" to the neoconservative label with which he is most associated and remarked that it was an appellation not of his choosing.

Nathan Glazer's parents, Jewish emigrants from the Russian Empire, spoke Yiddish in the home, and his father was a sewing machine operator.

Nathan Glazer attended public school as a child and eventually the City College of New York.

When Nathan Glazer attended the City College of New York in the 1940s, it was known as a hotbed of radicalism.

Nathan Glazer fell in with a number of other young Marxists who were hostile to Soviet-style communism.

World War II led to a belief among some of the leftists, including Nathan Glazer, that fascism was a greater threat than capitalism and that the United States, as a country that fought the fascists, ought to be viewed more favorably.

Nathan Glazer became a member of the anti-communist left and only mildly criticized Joseph McCarthy when writing of him in the magazine Commentary.

About the same time, Nathan Glazer undertook a detailed study of the Rosenberg Case.

Nathan Glazer's investigation convinced him not only of the Rosenbergs' guilt, but that a larger number of conspirators were involved.

In 1960, Nathan Glazer briefly edited The Committee of Correspondence Newsletter at Harvard, but soon dropped this project and began writing articles about ethnic groups in New York City, and they would eventually be collected and published in 1963 as the book Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City, arguably Nathan Glazer's most well-known work.

In Lyndon Johnson's administration, Nathan Glazer was a consultant with the Model Cities Program.

In 1969, Nathan Glazer began a teaching career at Harvard after he had been awarded one of five positions created to focus on the problems of the cities.

Nathan Glazer continued to publish books on race and ethnicity throughout the 1980s and 1990s.

For Nathan Glazer, it was a simple reality that could not be denied, but he remained deeply ambivalent about multiculturalism.

Nathan Glazer served on committees for the National Academy of Sciences and received numerous grants and fellowships, including the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Fulbright Fellowship, throughout his career.

Nathan Glazer died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 19,2019, at age 95.