Richard Hofstadter ( 6 August 1916 – 24 October 1970 ) was an American historian. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 The Age of Reform: from Bryan to F.D.R. (1955) 1.2 The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964) 2 About Richard Hofstadter 3 External Links //...
American historian Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970) won two Pulitzer prizes in recognition of his leading role in reinterpreting United States history during the post-World War II period. Richard Hofstadter was born on August 6, 1916, in Buffalo, New...
The most influential and one of the most distinguished American historians of the period between World War II and the Vietnam War, Richard Hofstadter epitomized the cosmopolitan, intellectual culture of the New York of his time. A vigorous exponent of...
Richard Hofstadter was born 6 August 1916 in Buffalo, New York, the elder of two sons of Emil A. and Katherine Hill Hofstadter. His father was a Jewish immigrant whose family had fled from anti-Semitism in Poland in 1899, while his mother's family had...
Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916 - October 24, 1970) was an American historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. One of the leading public intellectuals of the 1950s, his works include The Age of Reform (1955)...
The relationship between politics and intellectual life, at the center of today's debate over political correctness," multiculturalism and other real and imagined sins of the academy, is hardly a new phenomenon. Throughout our history, contemporary political problems and commitments have shaped the questions Americans...
Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography. By David S. Brown. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xxiii, 291. $27.50.) During the 1937 filming of the unfinished I, Claudius, lead actor Charles Laughton muttered "I can't find the man" as he stalked around...
FDRBy Jean Edward Smith Random House, 858 pages, $35 The riotous climax of the 1936 Democratic National Convention came when Franklin Roosevelt took the podium to accept his party’s nomination for the second time. As Jean Edward Smith tells it in his new biography, FDR,...
Richard Hofstadter spent most his adult life in the “Upper West Side Kibbutz,” an area of Morningside Heights bounded by Claremont Avenue, Riverside Drive and Columbia’s Hamilton Hall. Of the eminences who inhabited this neighborhood in the 1950’s—Daniel Bell, Peter Gay, Irving Kristol, Lionel Trilling—Hofstadter...
