Kramnick, Isaac

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KRAMNICK, Isaac

KRAMNICK, Isaac. American, b. 1938. Genres: Politics/Government. Career: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, instructor in government, 1965-66; Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, assistant professor of government, 1966-68; Yale University, New Haven, CT, associate professor of government, 1968-72; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, professor of government, 1972-, associate dean of College of Arts and Sciences, 1986-89; writer. Publications: Bolingbroke and His Circle: The Politics of Nostalgia in the Age of Walpole, 1968; The Rage of Edmund Burke, 1978; (with F.M. Watkins) The Age of Ideology: Political Thought, 1750 to the Present, 2nd ed, 1979; Republicanism and Bourgeois Radicalism: Political Ideology in Late Eighteenth-Century England and America, 1991; Harold Laski-A Life on the Left, 1993; The Godless Constitution, 1996. EDITOR: W. Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, 1976; (with M. Foot) The Thomas Paine Reader, 1987; James Madison et al., The Federalist Papers, 1987. Address: Department of Government, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, U.S.A.

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