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Philip Klinkner, Ph.D.,
James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government

(pklinkne@hamilton.edu)
Klinkner received his Ph.D. from Yale University and is an expert on American politics, including parties and elections, race relations, Congress and the Presidency. He has been a professor at Hamilton since 1995 and is the former director of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center. Klinkner has written extensively on a variety of topics related to American politics. His books include The Losing Parties: Out-Party National Committees, 1956-1993 (Yale University Press, 1994) and Midterm: The 1994 Elections in Perspective (Westview Press, 1996). Most recently, he co-authored The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of America's Commitment to Racial Equality (University of Chicago Press, 1999), which received the 2000 Horace Mann Bond Book Award from Harvard University’s Afro-American Studies Department and W.E.B DuBois Institute.
Topics: Race relations, American politics and elections, voting, American Presidency, and the Supreme Court

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As Barack Obama prepares for his convention acceptance speech at Denver's Invesco Field, expectations are as high as the Mile-High City. Not only is his speech critical to his presidential campaign, but also by choosing to deliver it at an outdoor stadium, he's joining an exclusive group. Only two other presidential candidates have given outdoor convention addresses and both gave speeches for the history books.

John Kennedy accepted the 1960 Democratic nomination at the Los Angeles Coliseum with his famous "New Frontier" speech. He was following the example of Franklin Roosevelt, who, in 1936, became the first candidate to accept his nomination at an outdoor stadium.
— Philip Klinkner, the James S. Sherman Associate Professor of Government