Isaac Kramnick

Isaac Kramnick died December 21, 2019. The Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government Emeritus at Cornell University, Kramnick was a leading scholar of English and American political thought and an influential teacher of undergraduate and graduate students. His books include Bolingbroke and His Circle: The Politics of Nostalgia in the Age of Walpole (1968) and several important anthologies and editions. He was a fellow of Britain’s Royal Historical Society and served as president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.