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Clinton Rossiter (1917–1970) was a historian and political scientist who taught at Cornell University from 1947 until his suicide in 1970. He wrote ''The American Presidency'' along with 20 other books on American institutions, the United States Constitution, and history. He won the Bancroft Prize and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for his book ''Seedtime of the Republic''. ==Biography== Clinton Lawrence Rossiter III was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 18, 1917. He was the son of Winton Goodrich Rossiter, a stockbroker, and Dorothy Shaw. Winton Goodrich Rossiter died on February 14, 1954 at age 64.〔Proquest Historical Newspapers: New York Times February 15, 1954 page 23〕 Clinton grew up in Bronxville, New York as the third of four siblings: Dorothy Ann Rossiter, William Winton Goodrich Rossiter (William also attended Westminster and Cornell University), Clinton, and Joan Rossiter. He was raised to give priority to family and social expectations. He attended Westminster preparatory school in Simsbury, Connecticut and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University in 1939, where he was also a member of the Quill and Dagger society. In 1942, Princeton University awarded him a doctorate for his thesis ''Constitutional Dictatorship: Crisis Government in the Modern Democracies''. Immediately after American entry into World War II, Rossiter joined the United States Naval Reserves and served for three years as a gunnery officer, mostly on the in the Pacific Theater, reaching the rank of lieutenant.〔"Clinton Lawrence Rossiter, II ."Dictionary of American Biography, Supplement 8: 1966-1970. American Council of Learned Societies, 1988. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006. http://galenet.galegroup.com.ezproxy.sfpl.org/servlet/BioRC〕〔James Morton Smith; ''Recent Deaths'', The American Historical Review; Vol. 76, No. 3; Jun 1971, p. 959-961〕 He married Mary Ellen Crane in September 1947. They had three sons (all Cornell graduates): David Goodrich Rossiter (1949), Caleb Stewart Rossiter (1951) (Caleb also attended Westminster), and Winton Goodrich Rossiter (1954).〔Proquest Historical Newspapers: New York Times date November 22, 1954, p. 20〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clinton Rossiter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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