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The American Political Tradition

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The American Political Tradition Information
411 words, approx. 1 pages
The American Political Tradition is a 1948 book by Richard Hofstadter, an account on the ideology of previous U.S. presidents and other political figures. The full title is The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It. Hofstadter's...


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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
American politics has tradition of fraud
11/12/2000: 747 words, approx. 3 pages
American politics has tradition of fraud, irregularities Elections have had problems since the time of the founders By MARY DEIBEL Scripps Howard News Service Sunday, November 12, 2000 Spindled, folded and mutilated ballots of the mispunched sort under dispute...
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National Review
The Theme Is Freedom: Religion, Politics, and the American Tradition.
10/24/1994: 1,295 words, approx. 4 pages
The semi-hysterical reaction of liberal establishmentarians to the recent political success of the Religious Right no doubt stems from fear that more successes are to come. But it also arises from a deeply held understanding, or rather misunderstanding, of Christianity and its history. In...
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The New York Observer
Politics Without Politics: Seeing History From the Center
6/18/2006: 1,761 words, approx. 6 pages
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...
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The New York Observer
Politics Without Politics: Seeing History From the Center
6/18/2006: 1,761 words, approx. 6 pages
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...
 


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Essay Grade: 89%
Abraham Lincoln - a True American Hero
639 words, approx. 2 pages
This essay analyzes Richard Hofstadter's "American Political Tradition" and asks, "Is Abraham Lincoln truly the hero that Americans make of him?"


 

The American Political Tradition

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