Robert G. McCloskey
Robert Green McCloskey (18 January 1916 – 4 August 1968) was an American political historian.
McCloskey completed his doctorate in political science at Harvard University, and joined the faculty in 1948.[1] He was secretary of the Littauer Center of Public Administration until 1954, when Arthur A. Maass took the position.[2] McCloskey was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1959.[3] In 1966, McCloskey was named Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History and Government at Harvard. The position had been vacant since 1963, upon the death of V. O. Key.[4] McCloskey died on 4 August 1968.[5][6]
McCloskey's book American Conservatism in the Age of Enterprise was first published in 1951. The book was based on the his doctoral dissertation,[7] and explored conservatism in the United States from the Reconstruction era to 1910, by considering the publications of William Graham Sumner, Stephen Johnson Field, and Andrew Carnegie.[8][9] The first edition of The American Supreme Court was published in 1961, and described as "lucidly written, well-reasoned, and concise" by Robert J. Harris,[10] and "one of the best of a rare breed" by Paul W. Fox.[11] In 2011, Keith E. Whittington called it "the classic one-volume history of the Court."[12] A third book by McCloskey, titled The Modern Supreme Court, was posthumously published in 1974.[13]
- ^ Shapiro, Martin (1986). "Mccloskey, Robert G. (1916–1969)". Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ "Maass Appointed as Littauer Secretary". Harvard Crimson. 18 May 1954. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ "Robert G. McCloskey". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ "McCloskey Given Trumbull Chair; Math, Biology Professorships Filled". Harvard Crimson. 22 April 1966. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ "Robert G. McCloskey 1916-1969". Harvard Crimson. 6 August 1968. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ "Robert G. McCloskey, Professor Of History at Harvard, Is Dead". New York Times. 5 August 1968. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
- ^ Bornet, Vaughn D. (1 March 1952). "Book Reviews : American Conservatism in the Age of Enterprise: A Study of William Graham Sumner, Stephen J. Field, and Andrew Carnegie. By ROBERT GREEN MCCLOSKEY. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1951. Pp. xi, 193. $3.25.)". Political Research Quarterly. 5 (1): 150–151. doi:10.1177/106591295200500119.
- ^ Redlich, Fritz (1 April 1952). "American Conservatism in the Age of Enterprise: A Study of William Graham Sumner, Stephen J. Field, and Andrew Carnegie. By Robert Green McCloskey. [Harvard Political Studies.] (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1951. Pp. xiii, 193. $3.25.)". The American Historical Review. 53 (3): 707–709. doi:10.1086/ahr/57.3.707.
- ^ Dodge, Guy Howard (June 1952). "American Conservatism in the Age of Enterprise; A Study of William Graham Sumner, Stephen J. Field and Andrew Carnegie. By Robert Green McCloskey. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1951. Pp. xi, 193. $3.25.) - Brooks Adams; Constructive Conservative. By Thornton Anderson. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1951. Pp. xiv, 250. $3.75.)". American Political Science Review. 46 (2): 561–563. doi:10.2307/1950853.
- ^ Fox, Robert J. (1 July 1961). "ROBERT G. McCLOSKEY. The American Supreme Court. (The Chicago History of American Civilization.) Pp. x, 260. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960. $5.00". The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 336 (1): 179–180. doi:10.1177/000271626133600129.
- ^ Fox, Paul W. (December 1961). "The American Supreme Court by Robert G. McCloskey (review)". The Canadian Historial Review. 42 (4): 343–344.
- ^ Whittington, Keith E. (December 2011). "Review: THE SUPREME COURT IN POLITICS". Reviews in American History. 39 (4): 631–636. JSTOR 41348916.
- ^ Stephenson, Jr., D. Grier (April 1974). "Book Review". Virginia Law Review. 60 (4): 728–733. JSTOR 1072419.