found: Contemporary Authors Online, via WWW, October 19, 2012 (Robert Alan Dahl, 1915-; also known as Robert A. Dahl, Robert Dahl; born December 17, 1915 in Inwood, IA; son of Peter Ivor Dahl and Vera Lewis; AB, University Washington, 1936; Ph. D., Yale University, 1940; management analyst, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1940; economist, Office of Production Management, Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply, War Production Board, 1940-1942; Yale University, New Haven, CT, instructor, 1946-1947, assistant professor, 1948-1952, associate professor, 1953-1957, Ford Research Professor, 1957, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science, 1957-1963, Sterling Professor of Political Science, beginning 1963, currently professor emeritus; Robert A. Dahl is considered one of the foremost political scientists in the United states, and the country's leading student of democratic theory and practice; he is the author of more than a dozen influential books on various aspects of political science; Dahl's books have been translated into thirty languages)
Dahl, Robert A., 1915-
