Seymour Martin Lipset

Seymour Martin Lipset was the son of Jewish Russian immigrants whose father was a printer in New York City. As a student at City College of New York he was a Trotskyist member of the Young People's Socialist League. He was a prominent sociologist whose original research centered on democratic socialist and labor themes. However, at the end of life he was a fellow at the Hoover Institute and was generally considered a neoconservative.