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Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the most prominent politician-professor since Woodrow Wilson, grew up in the working-class neighborhoods of New York City. (His myth-makers liked to say he came of age in Hell's Kitchen, gests it was more like "Hell's Condominium.") From the start, he was a curious blend of scholar and Democratic Party loyalist.
Professor Moynihan wrote (with Nathan Glazer) Beyond the Melting Pot, a seminal 1963 work on race and ethnicity in America. Politico Moynihan ran for New York City Council president in 1965 (the only race he ever lost). Policy advisor Moynihan served in the cabinet or sub-cabinet of the Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Pat Moynihan: this lifelong New Yorker, student of urban life,...