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Mark I. Gelfand

Mark Gelfand has long served as a professor of history at Boston College, focusing on issues of modern American urban development and policy. He is the author of A Nation of Cities: The Federal Government and Urban America, 1933–1965 and Trustee for a City: Ralph Lowell of Boston.

After earning his B.A. at the College of the City of New York, Gelfand earned an M.A. at Harvard University and a Ph. D. at Columbia University. He worked as an acting assistant professor of history at University of California, Berkeley, from 1972 to 1974. He is currently writing a biography of Judge Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr. (1906-1986), who sat in the Federal District Court in Boston from 1942 until his death. 

 

Articles by this Author

Though no scandals touched Eisenhower personally, the media showed occasional interest in the number of gifts he received.
The Senate's inquiry into a Kennedy Administration defense contract is considered one of the longest and most extensive congressional investigations ever undertaken.