Charles R. Kesler

Charles R. Kesler (born 1956) is professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University. He is editor of the Claremont Review of Books, and the author of several books.

Not to be confused with Charles Kiesler.
Charles R. Kesler
Born1956
Alma materHarvard University
OccupationAcademic
EmployerClaremont McKenna College, Claremont Graduate University
Known forEditor of the Claremont Review of Books
Spouse(s)Sally Pipes
Notes

Early life

Kesler graduated from Harvard University, where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in Social studies (1978), followed by a Ph.D in Government (1985).[2]

Career

Kesler is a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and the graduate faculty at Claremont Graduate University.[2] He is a senior fellow of Claremont Institute, and teaches at their Publius Fellows Program, a summer institute. Additionally, he is the editor of the Claremont Review of Books, a quarterly political magazine. He was the director of Henry Salvatori Center at Claremont McKenna College from 1989 to 2008.[2]

Kesler was a member of the Trump administration's 18-member 1776 Commission, which released a report on January 18, 2021 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) that called for "patriotic education."[3]

Selected works
  • Saving the Revolution:The Federalist Papers and the American Founding (Free Press, 1987) held in over 500 American libraries.
  • Keeping the Tablets: Readings in American Conservatism (HarperCollins, 1988) (together with William F. Buckley, Jr.).
  • The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics, 2003) (this is the best selling edition of The Federalist Papers)[4]

References
  1. "President and CEO". Pacific Research Institute. Retrieved 2020-04-13.
  2. "Charles R. Kesler". The Claremont Review of Books. Retrieved February 18, 2018.
  3. Crowley, Michael; Schuessler, Jennifer (2021-01-19). "Trump's 1776 Commission Critiques Liberalism in Report Derided by Historians". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
  4. "Charles R. Kesler". Global Entrepreneurship Program.
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