Louis Hartz

(1919-1986) lived in Omaha. Educator, political scientist, author, his work in political theory and comparative history influenced a generation of scholars; his book The Liberal Tradition in America argued that America’s emphasis on centrism and consensus developed because it did not have a feudal or aristocratic past; Woodrow Wilson Prize in 1956 and the Lippincott Prize in 1977. Consult Who Was Who in America, Vol 9 (1989) 155 and American Political Scientists: A Dictionary (Greenwood Press, 1993) 116-118 and New York Times obituary, January 24, 1996, p. A-17 and American National Biography, Sup 2 (2005) 235-237.

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