WOLFE, Alan (Stephen)

WOLFE, Alan (Stephen). American, b. 1942. Genres: Sociology, Politics/ Government. Career: Teacher of political science and sociology at Douglass College, College of Old Westbury, and Richmond College of the City University of New York; Queens College, Flushing, NY, professor of sociology, 1980-; New School for Social Research, NYC, dean of graduate faculty, 199093; Boston University, professor, 1993-. Lilly Seminar on Religion and Higher Education, member. Publications: (ed., with M. Surkin) An End to Political Science: The Caucus Papers, 1970; (with C.A. McCoy) Political Analysis; An Unorthodox Approach, 1972; The Seamy Side of Democracy: Repression in America, 1973; The Limits of Legitimacy: Political Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism, 1977; The Rise and Fall of the "Soviet Threat": Domestic Sources of the Cold War Consensus, 1979;(with others) A Questao da Democracia, 1980; America's Impasse: The Rise and Fall of the Politics of Growth, 1981; Whose Keeper?: Social Science and Moral Obligation, 1989; (ed.) America at Century's End, 1991; The Human Difference: Animals, Computers, and the Necessity of Social Science, 1993; Marginalized in the Middle, 1996; One Nation, After All: What MiddleClass Americans Really Think About God, Country, Family, Poverty, Racism, Welfare, Homosexuality, Immigration, the Left, the Right, and Each Other, 1998; Moral Freedom: The Impossible Idea the Defines the Way We Live Now, 2001. Address: Boston University, 745 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215, U.S.A. Online address: wolfe@bu.edu