Corliss lamont biography template
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Lamont, Corliss, 1902-1995 (Personal Name)
His Issues of immortality ... c1932.
Lehman special correspondence files, via WWW, viewed Aug. 4, 2008: correspondent (Lamont, Corliss)
American national biography online, viewed Aug. 4, 2008 (Lamont, Corliss (28 Mar. 1902-26 Apr. 1995); writer and philosopher)
The New York Times, via WWW, September 20, 2013 (April 28, 1995 edition; Corliss Lamont, the Socialist author, teacher and humanist philosopher who battled Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, the C.I.A. and other icons of authority in a lifelong fight for civil liberties and international understanding, died on onsdag på engelska , April 26, 1995 in Ossining, N.Y.; he was born on Marc h 28, 1902, in Englewood, N.J., he graduated from Phillips Exeter in 1920 and from Harvard in 1924 with a bachelor's degree and high honors; after a year at Oxford University, he became a philosophy lecturer at Columbia and in 1932 earned a doctor of philosophy degree there; in a career that spanned much of the centu
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Corliss Lamont Dies at 93; Socialist Battled McCarthy
Corliss Lamont, the Socialist author, teacher and humanist philosopher who battled Senator namn R. McCarthy, the C.I.A. and other icons of authority in a lifelong fight for civil liberties and international understanding, died on Wednesday at his country home in Ossining, N.Y. He was 93 years old and lived in New York City.
Dr. Lamont died of heart failure, his family said.
Born into wealth, the scion of the chairman of J. P. Morgan & Company, Dr. Lamont grew up with privilege, attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University like his father and might have had the life of a patrician on Wall Street. Instead, he cast his lot into the arena of radical causes.
In a career that spanned much of the century, Dr. Lamont wrote 16 books and hundreds of pamphlets on subjects ranging from humanism to McCarthyism; taught at Harvard, Cornell, Columbia and other universities; campaigned for Soviet-American friendship, a
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Corliss Lamont CentenaryCivil Liberties Forum
A debate entitled: “Must our Civil Liberties be Relinquished Under the Threat of Terrorism?”
Columbia UniversityLaw School
Jerome L. Greene Hall (JG101)
435 West 116th Street at Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027, USA
4 PM to 9 PM — Friday, April 5, 2002
These discussions were held in honor of Humanist, Patriot, and Defender of Civil Liberties, Corliss Lamont, as an observation of his Centenary. He was born March 28, 1902.
Professor Vincent A. Blasi, who occupies the endowed Corliss Lamont Civil Liberties Chair at Columbia University, delivered the keynote address. Invited speakers included the following individuals.†
- John Perry Barlow, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Mary Beaty, Electric Librarian
- Nancy Chang, Senior Litigation Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights
- Jeremiah S. Gutman, Co-chair, National Coalition Against Censorship
- Connie Hogarth, WESPAC
- C. Clark Kissinger, Refuse