Big Brother and the Grim Reaper: Political Life After Death

About Benjamin Ginsberg

Benjamin Ginsberg is David Bernstein Professor of Political Science and chair of the Center for Advanced Governmental Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author coauthor or editor of more than thirty books including The Fall of the Faculty Presidential Government Downsizing Democracy The Captive Public: Politics by Other Means The Value of Violence How the Jews Defeated Hitler Americas State Governments What Washington Gets Wrong and Warping Time. His college text We the People has been the nations most frequently used American government text for the past three decades. Ginsberg received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1973 and was professor of government at Cornell until 1992 when he joined the Johns Hopkins faculty.