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was convulsed with racial conflict, including the occupation of the student union building in April 1969. In response, Rossiter became prominent as a moderate voice among
Cornell University faculty, urging some understanding of the
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continues to be used as a standard text in high schools and colleges, but in the late 1990s, the publisher of that edition replaced
Rossiter's introduction and analytic table of contents with a new introduction by
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Seedtime of the Republic : the origin of the American tradition of political liberty
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Constitutional Dictatorship: Crisis Government in the Modern Democracies
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in the Universities up to the 70s by this study of Rossiter.
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is still hailed as among the very best accounts of the
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Russian-American Dialogue on the American Revolution
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613:; New York: Harcourt, Brace & World; (1964)
599:The political thought of the American Revolution
577:; Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press; (1960)
861:Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire
704:Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science
601:; New York: Harcourt, Brace & World; (1963)
186:. His parents were Winton Goodrich Rossiter, a
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527:The Supreme Court and the commander in Chief
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158:, among 20 other books, and won both the
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299:He spent the 1960–1961 academic year as
190:, and Dorothy Shaw. Clinton grew up in
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952:Gordon S. Wood; Louise G. Wood (1995).
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392:appreciation for his scholarly works.
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886:Midwest Journal of Political Science
807:American Communism and Soviet Russia
644:"The President and Labor Disputes".
568:; New York: Harcourt, Brace; (1960)
559:; New York: Harcourt, Brace; (1956)
547:second revised edition published as
429:and the making of the Constitution.
285:Professor of American Institutions.
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688:"What of Congress in Atomic War";
399:, Rossiter's first book, the 1948
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782:. Harcourt, Brace. p. 423.
780:The Communists & the Schools
674:"John Wise: Colonial Democrat";
521:Documents in American Government
248:and served for three years as a
213:in 1939 and was a member of the
690:The Western Political Quarterly
575:Parties and politics in America
407:had to learn the lesson of the
335:, on July 11, 1970, at age 52.
270:Rossiter taught briefly at the
164:Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award
1103:University of Michigan faculty
810:. Routledge. pp. xv–xvi.
763:The American Historical Review
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199:Westminster preparatory school
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662:Political Science Quarterly
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620:1787: the grand Convention
423:1787: The Grand Convention
405:constitutional democracies
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898:Barry Alan Shain (1994).
676:The New England Quarterly
352:and was widely reported.
347:Tompkins County, New York
133:Mary Ellen Crane Rossiter
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482:Seedtime of the Republic
174:Early life and education
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864:. Yale UP. p. 51.
647:The Journal of Politics
581:The American Presidency
557:The American Presidency
542:Conservatism in America
263:, reaching the rank of
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1123:Bancroft Prize winners
925:Lance Banning (1998).
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669:The Review of Politics
272:University of Michigan
244:, Rossiter joined the
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474:and the Constitution,
450:The Federalist Papers
290:fund for the Republic
209:, where he graduated
203:Simsbury, Connecticut
858:Anne Norton (2005).
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363:on sleeping pills.
305:Cambridge University
222:Princeton University
205:, and then attended
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112:Princeton University
464:American Revolution
357:clinical depression
148:political scientist
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509:Hans J. Morgenthau
488:Major publications
472:Alexander Hamilton
427:Federal Convention
368:Cornell University
338:The New York Times
321:Cornell University
207:Cornell University
197:Rossiter attended
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