Michael Kammen

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Michael Kammen is a professor of American cultural history at Cornell University. He was educated at the George Washington University and Harvard University (Ph.D., 1964).

Kammen's major works include:

• People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization, which won the Pulitzer Prize (1973)
• A Machine That Would Go of Itself: The Constitution in American Culture (1986), which won the Francis Parkman Prize and the Henry Adams Prize. In this work, Kammen argues that the U.S. Constitution is not a machine, but rather an organism. He also asserts that the Constitution should be interpreted liberally, because it was meant to be flexible and adapt to unforeseen circumstances.
• Contested Values: Democracy and Diversity in American Culture (1995)
• American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century (1999)
• A Time to Every Purpose: The Four Seasons in American Culture (2004)

[edit] External links

• http://www.yale.edu/history/faculty/kammen.html