Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades
of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite
academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark
books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny
of Man; the founding
of the Fellowship
of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader
of the Fellowship
of Reconciliation to critic
of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration
of Christianity and Crisis; the founding
of the Union for Democratic Action, then later
of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State
Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study
of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute
of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.
To name just four
academics sympathetic to sociobiology at work in the biology
departments of American universities: Timothy Goldsmith
of Yale teaches a course called «Biological Roots
of Human Nature»; William Zimmerman
of Amherst teaches the «Evolutionary Biology
of Human Social Behavior»; David Sloan Wilson (
Department of Biology, SUNY «Binghamton) researches the evolutionary basis
of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University
of New Mexico coauthored the infamous
book on the evolution
of rape.
It's also surprising that the
book doesn't consider the possibility
of separating legal
academic study from legal professional training, with fewer, less highly compensated, and more
academic legal scholars teaching in
departments of law, and more practical, doctrine - and instruction - oriented
academic lawyers working in law schools.