The Myth of the Ruling Class: Gaetano Mosca and the Elite

by James Hans Meisel

Genres: Politics

432 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1958

About the author

Hans Meisel studied at the universities in Berlin and Heidelberg ; he graduated in 1922 with the doctorate of philosophy . From 1925 to 1933 he was the local editor of the Berliner Vossische Zeitung . After the Nazi occupation , he had to go to exile in Italy in 1934; In 1936 he went to Austria, where he worked as a lecturer of the S. Fischer publishing house . After the "Anschluss" of Austria to the German Reich in 1938 he fled again to Italy and further to the United States . From 1938 to 1940 he worked as a secretary of Thomas Mann in Princeton (New Jersey). He then taught at Colleges in Idaho and Pennsylvania . From 1945, Meisel was a lecturer in Political Science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor ; In 1956 he was appointed professor. After his retirement in 1971 he lived in the state of Washington.

Hans Meisel became known in 1927 by his novel Torstenson , in which he portrays the development of a general as dictator. For this work, he was awarded the Kleist Prize in the same year. As a result of the emigration, Meisel did not continue his scholarly career. After his youthful memories A gondola made entirely of glass appeared with Aguilar in 2001 or The departure of another novel from the estate , written in 1937.