Table of Contents

Preface: The "Cornell Idea" Authors' Note Part I: 1945-1963 1. Building a Research University 2. The Death of "In Loco Parentis" 3. The "Cold War" at Cornell Part II: 1963-1977 4. The Bureaucratic University and Its Discontents 5. Race at Cornell 6. The Wars at Home Part III: 1977-1995 7. The Rhodes Years 8. Academic Identity Politics 9. Political Engagement, Divestment, and Cornell's Two China Policy Part IV: 1995-2015 10. A Tale of Three Presidents 11. West Campus, Suicide, and Student "Wellness" 12. Going Global Postscript Notes

About the Author

Glenn C. Altschuler is Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions and Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. He is a former columnist for the New York Times and the author or coauthor of several books, including Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century and All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America. Isaac Kramnick is Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government at Cornell University, where he also served as Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and faculty-elected member of the Board of Trustees. He is the author or editor of many books, including studies of the American founding fathers, Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke, and the twentieth-century Englishman Harold Laski.