Higman : A Collection

This first book presents the thoughts of the late Howard Higman who taught sociology for thirty-nine years at the University of Colorado and founded the World Affairs Conference in 1948 which continues to date. A popular professor, Higman imparted his knowledge and wit to thousands of students and poverty workers. This collection of lectures, writings, observations and personal accounts provides the reader with an autobiographical look at this extraordinary man. Among the nine chapters, Higman leads us through the prolonged and often comical twenty year investigation by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, taken from the Bureau's actual files. In the opening chapter, he allows us to know him as a child in Boulder and as a young man prior to and during World War II. In another chapter, Higman, an authority on violence and order, ruminates about the sociology of war. In yet another, he describes the origins and uniqueness of the World Affairs Conference. His contributions to action sociology during his days as an accidental soldier in the War on Poverty demonstrate keen insights into this persistent social problem. Two of his most noted lectures are provided. In Snippets, a range of topics are discussed. Never at a loss for words, he thrusts into his world of exciting people, ideas and sentiments.