Following service in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he returned home to complete his studies and went on to become a tutor at UC Berkeley.
Muscatine was born in Brooklyn to Samuel and Bertha (Greenberg) Mushkatin, Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire (now Belarus).
Muscatine studied English at Yale and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, participating in the D-day landing on Omaha Beach.
And secondly it was a violation of academic freedom, which is the idea that in a free society scholars and teachers are allowed to express and believe anything that they feel to be true.
In its decision, the Court of Appeal wrote: Any other conclusion would be to approve that which from the beginning of our government has been denounced as the most effective means by which one special brand of political or economic philosophy can entrench and perpetuate itself to the eventual exclusion of all others; the imposition of any more inclusive test would be the forerunner of tyranny and oppression.
"[5] Charles Muscatine died of a lung infection at Kaizer Permanente Medical Center in Oakland, California on 12 March 2010.