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Public Intellectuals and the Public Interest: Toward a Politics of Political Science as a Calling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 October 2010

Theodore J. Lowi
Affiliation:
Cornell University

Extract

Upon my first reading of the Etzioni autobiography, I recalled my favorite book review, written by a nine-year-old, who also should have won a prize for the youngest author and the shortest review ever: “This book told me more about penguins than I wanted to know.”

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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2010

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