Webb26 apr. 2011 · In continuation of what appears to be a series, I'd like to talk about Richard Hofstadter. Hofstadter, of course, was the American political historian who taught at Columbia with other academic luminaries such as Lionel Trilling and Jacques Barzun. Though an immaculate stylist and one of the most influential historians of his … WebbRichard Hofstadter (6 August 1916 – 24 October 1970) was an American historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century. Hofstadter was the DeWitt Clinton Professor …
The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter ...
Webb11 okt. 2024 · Hofstadter remained an American historian and pondered 20th century events through the lens of earlier American history. He was a widely quoted major public intellectual of his time. As noted in the earlier blog, by the time of his death, there were few if any historians as eminent and as honored. WebbRichard Hofstadter's famous Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, his tenth book, earned him the Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction (1964). This "personal book," called "a critical inquiry" in his first chapter (20), remains one of this esteemed American historian's most famous titles. As an active scholar, he had weathered the 1950s witch hunt ... clear sccm alerts
The Age of Reform (1955) · Richard Hofstadter at 100 · Richard ...
Webb17 juni 2012 · Introduction Richard Hofstadter’s (Aug. 6, 1916 - October 24, 1970) influence and school of thought as a “consensus historian” and noted intellectual of the 1950s has stature and relevance today. Born and raised through the tumultuous eras of the First World War, the Great Depression, and the Second World War, these trying times helped to… WebbDavid Brown's biography of Richard Hofstadter has attracted an unusual amount of attention for a revised dissertation, riding the wave of nostalgia that surrounds the Pulitzer Prize-winning ... Webb1 nov. 1998 · Begun in 1943, when Hofstadter was just twenty-seven years old, and completed four years later, The American Political Tradition launched the young scholar … clear sccm cache