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Richard Hofstadter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Hofstadter (6 August 1916 – 24 October 1970) was an American public intellectual of the 1950s, an historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. In the cou...
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Richard Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition is still an important work of history, fifty years after it was first published ... But Richard Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It is now celebrating its fiftieth year in print and remains a solid backlist seller.
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Amazon.com: Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography
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"The age of philosophy has passed...that of utility has commenced..." said an orator at Yale in 1844. Richard Hofstadter uses this telling quote and well as a wealth of other information to show how a thread of anti-intellectualism runs through the history and culture of "practical" America.
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Richard Hofstadter, historian at Columbia University, was a prolific writer and commentator on the Gilded Age and Progressive Eras, a founding member of the "Consensus School" of American history, and a scathing critic of the conservatism of his day.
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American politics has often been an arena for angry minds. In recent years we have seen angry minds at work mainly among extreme right-wingers, who have now demonstrated in ... But behind this I believe there is a style of mind that is far from new and that is not necessarily right-wind. ... Here is Senator McCarthy,
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Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970); Historian; PhD 1942; Faculty 1946–1970; The historian Richard Hofstadter was a core member of the group of postwar Columbia intellectuals that included Lionel Trilling, Jacques Barzun, Robert Merton, and Daniel Bell.
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