H. Wentworth Eldredge

H. Wenthworth Eldredge or H.W. Wentworth (18 October 1909 – 17 February 1991) was an American professor of sociology specializing in urban planning who also served as an American spy during World War II, where he helped divert Nazi attention from the pending invasion of Normandy ("Operation Overlord").

Background

Hanford Wentworth Eldredge was born on October 16, 1909, in Brooklyn, New York. His parents were Hanford W. Eldredge and Taylor Eldredge. In 1931, Eldredge received a BA from Dartmouth College; in 1935, he received a doctorate from Yale University.

Eldrege and his wife donated the painting "Mother and Son" by Haitian painter Roland Dorcely (1930–2017) to Dartmouth College's Hood Museum of Art.

Works

Books: Culture and Society: An Introduction to Sociology (1952) The Second American Revolution (1964) Taming Megopolis (1967) World Capitals (1975)

Articles: "Enemy Aliens: Resident of This City for Twenty Years," New Haven Evening Register (1918) "A City Voice Crying in the Wilderness," Dartmouth Alumni Magazine (1963) "Reviewed Works: The Betrayal of the Poor... Reforming the Poor" Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (1973)

Eldredge wrote part of an unpublished autobiography.