Nisbet, Robert A.

Robert A. Nisbet papers, 1949-1994 (bulk 1953-1990). - 1,500 items. 3 containers. 1.0 linear feet.

Open to research.

Chiefly working files for Nisbet's books including correspondence with editors, reviewers, and readers, contracts with publishers, reviews, promotional material, research material, and other papers. Correspondents include James Luther Adams, Daniel Bell, T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Russell Kirk, Hans Kohn, Seymour Martin Lipset, Reinhold Niebuhr, David Morris Potter, Philip Rieff, David Riesman, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.


Sociologist and historian. Full name: Robert Alexander Nisbet. Born 1913, died 1996.


Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008034

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Adams, James Luther, 1901-1994 --Correspondence.
Bell, Daniel, 1919-2011 --Correspondence.
Eliot, T. S. 1888-1965 --Correspondence.
Himmelfarb, Gertrude--Correspondence.
Kirk, Russell--Correspondence.
Kohn, Hans, 1891-1971 --Correspondence.
Lipset, Seymour Martin--Correspondence.
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971 --Correspondence.
Potter, David Morris--Correspondence.
Rieff, Philip, 1922-2006 --Correspondence.
Riesman, David, 1909-2002 --Correspondence.
Schlesinger, Arthur M. 1917-2007 --Correspondence.


Authors and publishers.
Book editors.
Historiography.
Sociology.


Historians.
Sociologists.