Finding a teacher for life

I first encountered Stanley Hoffmann as a first year graduate student in the Government Department in 1961. Luck and the grapevine of student gossip about the best teachers at Harvard brought me into Hoffmann’s class: political doctrines and society: modern France (also called Government 114, the Harvard class number). Today I remember the main points of that first lecture as if I had just heard it yesterday. At a time when political science was dominated by political development theories