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While Harvard had slowly been moving to the left when Mansfield departed for Berkeley, the young liberal democrat returned to his alma mater a newly-born conservative...
Frustrated by the complacency with which liberals treated the Soviet and communist threat and disenchanted with the values of the Democratic Party, Mansfield turned slowly to the right...
Pforzheimer Professor of Government Sidney Verba ’53, who knew Mansfield as an undergraduate—they lived in Leverett House together but lost touch after graduation—and later replaced Mansfield as the chair of Harvard’s government department, says that Mansfield’s experience at radically liberal Berkeley might have actually pushed him further to the right...
...would certainly imagine, having been in California teaching in the 1960s, a time when everybody was becoming more politically involved, that the strong left position at Berkeley might have pushed some people, like [Mansfield], in the direction of more conservative politics,” Verba says. “It would have made him more politically engaged...
...returning to Harvard in 1963, Mansfield says he soon found that his politics set him apart from other professors on a liberal campus that was soon entrenched in the tumult of Vietnam War politics...