Word: hershberg
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...book, James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age, by James G. Hershberg '82, began as an undergraduate honors thesis in the history department and grew over the course of 11 years into a 948-page tome. It marks a significant revision to the traditional interpretation of Conant as a heroic defender of academic freedom...
...Hershberg's work tells the full story of how the chemistry professor who served as president of Harvard from 1933 to 1953 was a key advisor in President Franklin D. Roosevelt's decision to approve a crash effort to build the atom bomb...
...Hershberg argues that new evidence, including transcripts of meetings of the Educational Policies Commission, shows that Conant's support for the ban on Communist teachers was "a pragmatic, expedient move that would put the educational establishment in a much better position to defend left-wing but non-communist teachers...
...Hershberg holds Conant to a high standard and argues that the Harvard president fell short...
...failure of nerve at key moments...was very important in the general failure of the American educational establishment" in the fight for academic freedom and against the anti-Communist hysteria, Hershberg said yesterday...