47 research outputs found
The Social Thought of Bernard Mandeville: Virtue and Commerce in Early Eighteenth-Century England. Thomas A. Horne. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. Pp. xii + 123. $12.50.)
No full textAgainst the Current Essays in the History of Ideas. By Isaiah Berlin. Edited by Henry Hardy. (New York: Viking Press, 1980. Pp. liii + 394. $16.95.)
No full textPeter H. Marshall. William Godwin. New Haven: Yale University Press. 1984. Pp. x, 497. $30.00.
No full textBenjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism. Stephen Holmes. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984. Pp. vii + 337. $27.50.)
No full textA Conversation with Glenn Altschuler
Full text linkVideo captions may be toggled on or off by clicking the "CC" button in the embedded media player on this page.Isaac Kramnick, the Richard J. Schwartz Emeritus Professor of Government interviews his close friend (and collaborator) Glenn Altschuler, the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies and Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions. Their conversation covers Professor Altschuler’s formative years in Brooklyn as well as his teaching, scholarship, relationships with alumni, and administrative roles at Cornell.1_eda03iu
A Conversation with Isaac Kramnick
Full text linkIsaac Kramnick, the Richard J. Schwartz Emeritus Professor of Government, chats with Glenn Altschuler, his colleague, collaborator, and close friend. Topics include his formative years on a chicken farm in Millis Massachusetts; his undergraduate and graduate experiences at Harvard; and his extraordinary Cornell career as a teacher, scholar, department chair, faculty trustee, vice provost for undergraduate education, “founding father” of the West Campus House System, and University historian.1_b60qnwj
