Isaac Kramnick

Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government Emeritus

Overview

Isaac Kramnick is the Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government Emeritus at Cornell where he has taught since 1972. Prior to coming to Cornell he had taught at Harvard, Brandeis, and Yale. He is from rural Massachusetts and was educated at Harvard and Cambridge University. Professor Kramnick has taught and written principally in the area of English and American political thought and history. He has written or edited some 20 books including studies of Edmund Burke, a biography of the English socialist Harold Laski, an edition of the Federalist Papers and the recent Godless Constitution: A Moral Defense of the Secular State which he co-authored with R. Laurence Moore of Cornell’s History Department.

Publications

Academic Article

Lockean Liberalism and the American Revolution. History Now. 2010
Politics and Poetry. Dissent. 2001

Book

Cornell: A History, 1940-2015. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press (CUP). 2014
The 100 Most Notable Cornellians. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press (CUP). 2005
Democracy in America. London: Penguin Books. 2003

Chapter

Writing Politics. Writing and Revising the Disciplines . 2002