Robert Engler (July 12, 1922 – February 23, 2007) was an American professor emeritus of political science at the City University of New York (and other colleges and universities) and a writer of numerous essays and books on the subject. He was most outspoken regarding the Western world's dependence on oil, a subject on which he wrote two books, The Politics of Oil (1961) and The Brotherhood of Oil (1977). Engler also wrote numerous essays on an array of subjects for various journals and magazines.
Engler was born in the Bronx, New York City, United States to Jewish immigrants from eastern Europe.[1] In 1942 he graduated from the City University of New York. He then served in the United States Army in World War IIand was among those involved in the liberation of Dachau.[2][3]
Engler's The Politics of Oil was when published hailed as the first book to broadly look at the oil insterest from a standpoint of public interest in 24 years.[6] Other reviewers criticized Engler's overall methods, and letting his desires drive him to call things "undemocratic" that in fact expressed the will of the only defined and vocal interests of the public that were easily discernible.[7]
Bibliography
The Politics of Oil: A Study of Private Power and Democratic Directions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1961.
The Brotherhood of Oil: Energy Policy and the Public Interest. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1977. ISBN0-226-20948-2.
References
^March 6, 2007 Washington Post obituary of Robert Engler
^New York Sun obituary of Engler. This obituary is very close to the Post obituary, but it does say he served in the army, while the Post does not specify which branch of the military Engler served in
^[https://www.jstor.org/stable/40400898 @article{10.2307/40400898, ISSN = {00368237, 19432801}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/40400898}, author = {Harvey O'Connor}, journal = {Science & Society}, number = {4}, pages = {494--497}, publisher = {Guilford Press}, reviewed-author = {Robert Engler and Arthur Beeby-Thompson}, volume = {26}, year = {1962} This review also suggests that Engler was in some way connected with Columbia University. I am thinking we would need a clearer source though to place that in the body of the article]
^See for example review by Aaron Wildavsky in Political Science Quarterly Vol. 78, No. 1 (March 1963) in which Wildavsky thoroughly criticizes Engler's methodology, here is the JSTOR link to that article [1]
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