ABSTRACT
Someday a scholar with tremendous energy and perspicacity will decide to write a biography of Irving Louis Horowitz, who died on March 21, 2012 at eighty-two. Abundant archival materials for such a work are housed in the Special Collections unit of Penn State's Paterno Library, and are also digitized for long-distance use. It is both corny and accurate to observe that he lived "for" scholarship rather than "off" of it, to borrow from both Max Weber and Alvin Gouldner, two thinkers who were never far from Horowitz's imagination. Perhaps anticipating fate, he wrote not long ago his concluding observations about C. Wright Mills, with whom he is so strongly linked, a speech he was to have delivered in Norway in May 2012 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Mills' death at forty-five. There is nothing one can say that is adequate in measuring the loss of this scholar and publisher, allowing him to speak his last words for himself.
