Richard Hofstadter An Intellectual Biography

Name: Richard Hofstadter An Intellectual Biography
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ISBN: 9780226076416

ISBN-10: 0226076415

ISBN-13: 9780226076416

Edition: 2007

Authors: David S. Brown

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Richard Hofstadter (1916-70) was America's most distinguished historian of the twentieth century. The author of several groundbreaking books, including "The American Political Tradition," he was a vigorous champion of the liberal politics that emerged from the New Deal. During his nearly thirty-year career, Hofstadter fought public campaigns against liberalism's most dynamic opponents, from McCarthy in the 1950s to Barry Goldwater and the Sun Belt conservatives in the 1960s. His opposition to the extreme politics of postwar America marked him as one of the nation's most important and prolific public intellectuals. In this masterly biography, David Brown explores Hofstadter's life within…

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List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 316
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.98" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Interior, Exterior



Education, 1916-1950



Radical Roots



The Twilight of Waspdom



The New American Political Tradition



The Historian as Social Scientist



Engagement, 1950-1965



The Age of Reform and Its Critics



The Crisis of Intellect



The Paranoid Mind



Eclipse, 1965-1970



Rebellion from Within



Conflict and Consensus - Redux



The Trials of Liberalism



A World Full


Notes


Bibliographic Essay: In Search of Richard Hofstadter


Sources: Archives, Interviews, and Correspondence


Students of Richard Hofstadter


Index