By David M. Shribman
The prize for the most important book with the most misleading title might go to "The End of Liberalism," published in 1969 by Theodore J. Lowi, who died less than three months ago. In the second edition of that book, published 10 years after it first was released, the Cornell political scientist sets forth in 11 enigmatic words why he once was named by his peers as the most influential political scientist in the country:
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