Robert A. Nisbet

1913 - 1996

Titles on this disk:

• author: The Present Age: Progress and Anarchy in Modern America

Quotations:

• (3 February, 2010) Nisbet on how violent, contact sports like football redirect people’s energies away from war (1988)
• (19 July, 2004) Robert Nisbet on the Shock the Founding Fathers would feel if they could see the current size of the Military Establishment and the National Government (1988)

About this person:

Robert Nisbet (1913-1996), former professor of sociology at Columbia University, is the author of Sociology as an Art Form; The Social Philosophers; Prejudices: A Philosophical Dictionary; The Sociological Tradition; History of the Idea of Progress; and Twilight of Authority, also published by Liberty Fund.