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Edward C. Banfield  

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  • Edward C. Banfield (1916–1999) was a political scientist who is best known for three books: The Moral Basis of a Backward Society (1958), The Unheavenly City (1970), and The Unheavenly City Revisited (1974). Banfield grew up on a farm in Bloomfield, Connecticut. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Banfield, Edward C.]

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