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Grazia, Sebastian de was born on August 11, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Alfred Joseph and Catherine Cardinale Lupo de Grazia.
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In an imaginative and masterful work of history, Pulitzer Prize-winner Sebastian de Grazia has created two memorable characters. Nineteen-year-old Oliver Huggins is in for the tutorial of his life. For twelve afternoons, Claire St. John, a beguiling British graduate student, will reveal to him the untold story of American Constitutional history. Her means: the Socratic method. Her message: that the Constitution was itself unconstitutional, and that its authors' inability to choose a name for the republic muddied the document's meaning for the future ahead. Through these "tutorials" de Grazia passes in review our most revered heroes—Jefferson, Washington, Marshall, Lincoln, and Thoreau—revealing the complexity of their characters. St. John's unsettling tales arouse more in her disciple than intellectual curiosity. Their relationship unrolls in so humorous and seductive a way that only a musty academic could object. Satirical, intelligent, and sure-handed, A Country with No Name combines history and literature, politics and law to reinvigorate our best traditions.
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Grazia, Sebastian de was born on August 11, 1917 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Alfred Joseph and Catherine Cardinale Lupo de Grazia.
AB, University of Chicago, 1939; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1947.
Born in Chicago, he received his bachelor"s degree and a doctorate in political science from the University of Chicago. During World World War II he served in the Office of Strategic Services, predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency as an analyst. In 1962-1988 he taught political philosophy at Rutgers University.
He is also the author of The Political Community (1948), Errors of Psychotherapy (1952), and A Country with Number Name (1997).
De Grazia has been described as the "father of leisure". Of Time, Work, and (1962) puts forward the idea that traditionally leisure was not a matter of recreation as much as of contemplation, of expanding one"s awareness and understanding of the world, and that the social context of this understanding of leisure has to a large extent been lost, and with it the notion of leisure being the pursuit of philosophy.
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Member American Political Science Association, American Society Political and Legal Philosophy, Institut International de Philosophie Politique. Clubs: Cosmos (Washington). Nassau, Prettybrook (Princeton).
Century (New York City).
Married Miriam Lund Carlson. Children: Alfred Joseph III, Margreta, Sebastian. Married Anna Maria d'Annunzio di Montenevoso.
Children: Marc, Tancredi. Married Lucia Heffelfinger.