Samuel Hutchison Beer was an American political scientist who specialized in the government and politics of the United Kingdom.
10 Facts About Samuel Beer
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Samuel Beer was a longtime professor at Harvard University and served as president of the Americans for Democratic Action in the early 1960s.
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Samuel Beer attended Staunton Military Academy with Barry Goldwater, and the two played on the school's football team.
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Samuel Beer was a reporter for The New York Post and Fortune.
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Samuel Beer then attended graduate school at Harvard University, earning a doctorate in political science in 1943.
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Samuel Beer published several books in his field, including his first in 1949, The City of Reason, which advocated a political approach predicated on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead.
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Samuel Beer was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1955.
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Samuel Beer focused on the US in To Make a Nation: The Rediscovery of American Federalism about American political theory.
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Samuel Beer was a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
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Samuel Beer proudly wore a gold "JFK" tie clasp, a gift from the late president, to work every day.