Advertisement Continue reading the main storyMr. Peters saw it firsthand. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyLater, as a young lawyer, he oversaw the local presidential campaign of a Catholic senator hoping to win over a largely Protestant state. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“By 1985 there were more investment banks conducting job interviews at Harvard than any other profession,” he writes. Mostly, though, Mr. Peters would like to see one final revival of the animating spirit of his youth, an awakening to the importance of government service, teaching, journalism and the worth of public life. But even a few minutes after warning a visitor last week that he was becoming weary, Mr. Peters leaned forward from his chair and continued “evangelizing,” as he put it.

Source: New York Times March 07, 2017 21:00 UTC