Morton Grodzins

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Morton M. Grodzins (born 11 August 1917, died 7 March 1964) was a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, as well as a dean of the school and an editor at Chicago University Press. He is known for coining the term "tipping point" in studies of white flight, such as The Metropolitan Area as a Racial Problem (1958). His book Americans Betrayed (1949) was the first major study criticizing the Japanese-American internment during World War II. His book Making un-Americans looked at Cold War paranoia in a critical light. Owing to his concern about the threat of nuclear war, he played a leading role in the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. He also wrote major studies of American federalism, in which he criticized the idea that the federal, state, and local governments operated distinctly from one another.

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• (Obituary) Morton Grodzins, political scientist. New York Times, Mar 10, 1964.
• Americans Betrayed: Politics and the Japanese Evacuation, 1949. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• The Metropolitan Area as a Racial Problem, 1958. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
• The American System: A New View of the Government of the United States, 1966. New York: Rand McNally.