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| | Amazon.com: Moral Basis of a Backward Society: Books: Edward C. Banfield,Laura Fasano Banfield,L. F. Banfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | The difference is, of course, that Banfield did not remain an innocent: with his unflinching clarity of vision, and his shrewd capacity for synthesis, he used this inquiry to launch himself into one of the most important careers in political science in the 20th Century. |
 | | Banfield's encounter with Montegrano clearly informs his later work: his studies of Richard Daley's Chicago and his later, more general work on city politics and on government in general. |
 | | Banfield (the Austrians, the Spanish, the French, the Normans, etc.), some of which were still in living memory at the time, as Calabria was on the front line of the Austro-Hungarian invasion of Italy during WWI. |
| www.amazon.com /Moral-Backward-Society-Edward-Banfield/dp/0029015103 (2360 words) |
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