Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Charles E. Silberman

American Author of Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice (1978), a study of crime and the American criminal justice system

"The crucial thing about the melting pot was that it did not happen: American politics and American social life are still dominated by the existence of sharply-defined ethnic groups."