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Author(s): Steven J Harper
ISBN(s): 9780810161979, 0810161974
Edition: 1
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Year: 2008
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0810161974 

ISBN 13: 9780810161979

Author: Steven J Harper

Author Steven J. Harper pays tribute to a well-respected teacher with this biography of a distinguished William Smith Mason Professor of History at Northwestern University, Richard W. Leopold. Harper had maintained contact with his former professor, as had hundreds of other alumni, meeting with him in the apartment to which his age and health confined him. When Leopold invited him to review his biographical materials to prepare a New York Times obituary, Harper began to catch glimpses of a deeper history in Leopold’s life: that of Jews in America after the turn of the century.

Across two years of Sundays, Leopold’s life came together and Harper began to notice parallels between the life of his professor and the life of his recently deceased father-in-law. Both grew up in less orthodox households but were still identified as Jewish by others; both attended Ivy League colleges, fighting (and beating) anti-Semitism there; and both served their country with distinction in World War II. The two men persevered through a twentieth century Jewish-American experience that they and many others shared, but rarely discussed. Steven Harper has caught them both on the page just in time to document their lives, their culture, and the nation that grew and changed alongside them.

Table of contents:

Part One: “I have no religion myself…”
Winter Quarter 1974–My First Experience
“The First Test: The Great Crusade”
“The Interwar Compromise”
Exeter and Princeton
Harvard
“Annus Mirabilis”
“Groping for a Policy”
Richard Leopold Photos
William J. Loeb Photos

Part Two: “It was, perhaps, the most exciting period of my life.”
“The Second Test: The Struggle for Survival”
Interlude
Casualties of War
“The United Nations and the Peace”
A Loss in the Family

Part Three: “Whether I could have done these things at Harvard, we shall never know.”
Northwestern
Building the History Department
The Leopold-Link Decade at Northwestern
Arthur Link Leaves Evanston
1968
The Assault on the NROTC
The Roosevelt Library Investigation
“When in Doubt, I Didn’t”
Firsthand Experience—Enter Steve Harper

Part Four: “After a stretch of forty-three years in the classroom, during which I enjoyed almost every moment, I do not miss it at all.”
The Twilight Years of a Brilliant Career
Roll Call—Graduate Students
A Prisoner of His Wheelchair
Nearing the Final Station on the Schedule
The Measure of a Man

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