Wilson Carey McWilliams
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Wilson Carey McWilliams (2 September 1933–29 March 2005), son of Carey McWilliams, was a political scientist with a storied career at Rutgers University. Author of The Idea of Fraternity in America (1973, University of California Press), for which he won the National Historical Society prize in 1974, McWilliams was also a prolific essayist, whose works appeared in Commonweal and other journals. His essays on American elections from 1976-1998 were collected in two volumes, The Politics of Disappointment (1995, Chatham House) and Beyond the Politics of Disappointment (2000, Chatham House). He was a visiting professor at Haverford College before his death in March 2005. Recordings are available of his last class, American Political Thought since the Civil War, which was continued after his death by his daughter, Susan J. McWilliams, a Ph.D. candidate in the department of politics at Princeton University at the time and a current professor of politics at Pomona College.
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