Banfield, Edward Christie

1916 - Born on the 19th of November on a farm in Bloomfield, Connecticut.

1938 - Received a B.A. in English from the University of Connecticut.

1952 - Banfield received  Ph.D. in political science in University of Chicago.

1952-1959 - He served as faculty of University of Chicago.

1955 - Banfield and Meyerson published an account of how Chicago built public housing projects.

1958 - Wrote with the assistance of his wife Laura, The Moral Basis of a Backward Society, a "work for the ages".

1970 - Banfield's most famous book, The Unheavenly City.

1999 - Edward C. Banfield died peacefully at his Vermont summer home.