Education
De Grazia attended the University of Chicago, receiving an A.B. there in 1939, attended law school at Columbia University from 1940–1941, and in 1948 gained a PhD from the University of Chicago in political science. His thesis was published as Public and Republic: Political Representation in America by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, New York (1951): "A thoroughgoing examination of the meaning of representation, the fundamental element in any definition of republic." (The New York Times)
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