Mayer died in 1986 in Carmel, California, where he and his second wife made their home. of Chicago Press) and is the co-author, with Mortimer Adler, of The Revolution in Education (Univ. Mayer is also the author of What Can a Man Do? (Univ. He was also a consultant to the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions.
(Mayer became a member of the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers while he was researching this book in Germany in 1950 he did not reject his Jewish birth and heritage.) At various times, he taught at the University of Chicago, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of Louisville, as well as universities abroad. Mayer's most influential book was probably They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45, a study of the lives of a group of ordinary Germans under the Third Reich, first published in 1955 by the University of Chicago Press. In 1945 they were divorced, and two years later Mayer married Jane Scully, whom he referred to as "Baby" in his magazine columns.Īt various times, he taught at the University of Chicago, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of Louisville, as well as universities abroad.
He studied at the University of Chicago from 1925 to 1928 but did not earn a degree he told the Saturday Evening Post in 1942 that he was "placed on permanent probation in 1928 for throwing beer bottles out a dormitory window." He was a reporter for the Associated Press (1928-29), the Chicago Evening Post, and the Chicago Evening American.ĭuring his stint at the Post he married his first wife Bertha Tepper (the couple had two daughters). He graduated from Englewood High School, where he received a classical education with an emphasis on Latin and languages. Mayer, raised a Reform Jew, was born in Chicago, the son of Morris Samuel Mayer and Louise (Gerson). Du Milton Sanford Mayer, a journalist and educator, was best known for his long-running column in The Progressive magazine, founded by Robert Marion LaFollette, Sr in Madison, Wisconsin. He studied at the University of Chicago from 1925 to 1928 but did not earn a degree he told the Saturday Evening Post in 1942 that he was "placed on permanent probation in 1928 for throwing beer bottles out a dormitory window." He was a reporter for the Associated Press (1928-29), the Chicago Evening Post, and the Chicago Evening American.
Milton Sanford Mayer, a journalist and educator, was best known for his long-running column in The Progressive magazine, founded by Robert Marion LaFollette, Sr in Madison, Wisconsin.
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