Bernard Bailyn, one of the top living historians; and Oscar Handlin, one of the premiere sociologists of all time; and Donald Fleming, remembered from his 41 years at Harvard for combining a rather traditional etiquette with a very sharp wit; and Stephen Thernstrom,one of the preeminent scholars of the history of race relations in America, combined to write/edit a thoroughly interesting (to a Harvard man at least) book. Harvard University Press, 1986.