Fiction by Edward C. Banfield
Edward C. Banfield, “The Case of the Handcuffed Sheriff,” (Chicago, IL: American Foundation for Continuing Education, 1957).
Edward C. Banfield, “Growing Problem,” (Chicago, IL: American Foundation for Continuing Education, 1959).
Edward C. Banfield, “The Case of the Blighted City,” (Chicago, IL: American Foundation for Continuing Education, 1959).
A List of Conferences, Collections, & Bibliographies On Edward C. Banfield
Charles R. Kesler, ed., Edward C. Banfield: An Appreciation (Claremont, CA: Henry Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World, 2002).
Edward C. Banfield Collection, City Planning and Landscape Architecture Collection, University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana. Repository of Edward C. Banfield, ed., Reports on American Cities, (Center for Urban Studies at MIT and Harvard: 1960-1963).
Anthony G. White, Edward C. Banfield: Bibliography of a Conservative Urbanologist (Monticello, Ill.: Council of Planning Librarians, 1975)
“Bibliography,” in Charles R. Kesler, ed., Edward C. Banfield: An Appreciation (Claremont, CA: Henry Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World, 2002), pp. 123-136.
Audio Recordings of Edward C. Banfield
Source: Christopher DeMuth
In late 1977, Stephen Smith, a journalist, interviewed Edward C. Banfield and many persons who knew him, for an article intended for Esquire magazine. Smith kindly gave the tapes of his interviews to the Banfield family. Below are selections from these tapes. These audio files (MP3 format) are quite large and require a high speed Internet connection to access them.
Recording #1 (32+ minutes/35 megabytes): With the family dog, Sashi, at his side, ECB speaks of his farm, his childhood, neighbors, early employment, how he ended up attending U Chicago and studying planning and cities, Rexford G. Tugwell, Martin Meyerson, James Q. Wilson, and his first books.
Recording #27 (22+ minutes; 18 megabytes): Topics include Harvard colleagues, problems America may face (hedonism, loss of virtue, nihilism), liberalism as theory and policy, human nature, “Policy Science as Metaphysical Madness,” free markets, his desire to research new topics, his regrets, and U Penn and Bonnie Bluestein (a student who disrupted his classes at both Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania).
A List of Biographies/Obituaries/Remembrances of Edward C. Banfield
James Q. Wilson, “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court: A Biography,” Charles R. Kesler, ed., Edward C. Banfield: An Appreciation (Claremont, CA: Henry Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom in the Modern World, 2002), pp. 31-80.
Richard Bernstein, “Edward C. Banfield: Maverick on Urban Policy Issues,” New York Times, October 8, 1999.
Robert J. Samuelson, “The Gift of a Great Teacher,” Washington Post, October 14, 1999.
Harvard University, “Memorial Minutes: Edward C. Banfield: Faculty of Arts and Sciences,” October 17, 2000.
Senator Daniel Moynihan, “Remarks in the Senate, Congressional Record,” October 18, 1999.
James Q. Wilson, “The Man Who Knew Too Much,” Weekly Standard, October 18, 1999.
Charles R. Kesler, “Edward C. Banfield, R.I.P.,” National Review, November 8, 1999.
Editor, “Edward C. Banfield, 1916-1999,” Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Autumn 1999.
James Neuechterlein, “The Unheavenly Urban Philosopher,” First Things, 1999.
James Q. Wilson, “The Independent Mind of Edward C. Banfield,” Public Interest, January 1, 2003.
Banfieldisms
“Do no good and no harm will come of it.”
“Those who cannot learn cannot be taught; those who can learn don’t need to be taught.”
“If you don’t want people to find out about something, don’t do it.”
“Social scientists should never try to predict the future; they have trouble enough predicting the past.”
“A Unitarian is a lapsed Christian. I’m a lapsed Unitarian.”
