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	Richard Hofstadter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916 - October 24, 1970) was a noted American historian and was the Dewitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University.
		Hofstadter (no relation to Douglas Hofstadter, who also won a Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction) was born in Buffalo, New York in 1916 to a Jewish father and a German Lutheran mother, who died when he was ten.
		Hofstadter would become one of the leading historians of his generation, associated with consensus historians challenging the theories of their progressive colleagues, who at that time were inclined to explain American history primarily through the prism of economics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Hofstadter (738 words)

	Richard Hofstadter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916 - October 24, 1970) was a noted American historian and professor at Columbia University.
		Hofstadter was born in Buffalo, New York in 1916 to a Jewish father and a German Lutheran mother, who died when he was ten.
		At the university, Hofstadter became involved in left-wing politics, joining the Young Communist League and meeting a radical student named whom he would marry in 1936.
	lexington-fayette.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Richard_Hofstadter (496 words)

	Deborah M. De Simone \| The Consequences of Democratizing Knowledge:Reconsidering Richard Hofstadter and the History of ...
		While Hofstadter's argument regarding the relationship between the school and society was in keeping with the political rhetoric of the Progressive historians of his day, his view that the democratization of knowledge was leading to utilitarianism and vocationalism in education directly challenged Progressive notions of the inherent value of universal education.
		Hofstadter accused religion, politics, and the public schools of fostering in common people a resentment and suspicion of intellect, of the life of the mind, and of those who devote their lives to it.
		Hofstadter's analysis of the challenge to academic freedom and to intellectual development by the democratization of knowledge, explored in the Development of Academic Freedom in the United States, was extended to the public schools and the curricular reforms of the twentieth century.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ht/34.3/desimone.html (3542 words)

	Douglas Hofstadter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hofstadter is multilingual; he spent a few years in Sweden in the mid-1960s, where he learned Swedish.
		Hofstadter predicted that the allowed energy level values of an electron in this crystal lattice, as a function of a magnetic field applied to the system, formed a fractal set.
		Hofstadter claimed the book (originally published in 1958) was highly influential to his thinking during his early years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter (1049 words)

	David Brown \| Redefining American History: Ethnicity, Progressive Historiography and the Making of Richard Hofstadter \| ...
		Hofstadter's contribution—essays on the pre-Civil War college and university, graduate and professional training, and the weaknesses of higher-learning in America—appeared to break fresh ground for a scholar preeminently interested in political culture and the history of ideas.
		Hofstadter was favorably impressed by the Frankfurt scholars' critical assessment of mass culture, and his subsequent work on populism and the Radical Right bear the School's imprint.
		Hofstadter agreed that the protest culture of the sixties demonstrated the need to reemphasize the importance of conflict in the American past, but not at the expense of the considerable interpretive advances initiated by his own generation.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/ht/36.4/brown.html (7826 words)

	Hofstadter, Richard. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Buffalo, N.Y. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1942 and began teaching there in 1946, becoming full professor in 1952 and De Witt Clinton professor of American history in 1959.
		One of the most brilliant of 20th-century American historians, Hofstadter wrote widely on the intellectual, social, and political history of the United States.
		Hofstadter did not believe that economic self-interest was the sole motivator of human conduct.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ho/Hofstadt.html (182 words)

	The Age of Reform (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Hofstadter commits a grave error in claiming that racial motives constituted the sublime principle for the millions of farmers who harbored a beef with the political system.
		According to Hofstadter, the concern of the progressives didn't involve a disbelief in the system of American society and government, but rather their position in a world increasingly fraught with the tectonic changes of industrialism.
		Hofstadter is at his best in revealing that the populist movement played -- and preyed -- on the longing of Americans for a pastoral, agrarian past that was ironically little more than myth by the end of Reconstruction.
	www.golfbugs.com /GolfBookstore/isbn0394700953.html (1634 words)

	The American Political Tradition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Hofstadter's treatment of Andrew Jackson in chapter 3 connects the rise of "Old Hickory" to the emergent liberal ethos of capitalism, an analysis which allows students to move beyond studies of Jackson focusing on his personality.
		Hofstadter's sketches of William Jennings Bryan (chapter 8), Theodore Roosevelt (chapter 9), and Woodrow Wilson (chapter 10) are reminiscent of the author's classic work The Age of Reform, published seven years after the release of The American Political Tradition.
		Hofstadter makes the important point that much of the sentiment behind these movements was reactive rather than forward-looking, as political leaders articulated the desires of Americans to control to the vast social transformations taking place during the Industrial Era.
	www.orange.k12.oh.us /teachers/ohs/tjordan/Pages/apt.html (534 words)

	Commentary Magazine - America at 1750, by Richard Hofstadter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In May 1969 Richard Hofstadter sent his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, the prospectus for a three-volume comprehensive history of the United States, extending from 1750 to the present.
		...Hofstadter argues that by the middle of the 18th century "England and America had become quite different societies, the first still the sphere of a worldly aristocracy and a worldly establishment, the second a center of ascetic Protestantism and middle-class morality...
		...Hofstadter's second Pulitzer prize-winning book, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963), traced as a dominant theme in American thought "resentment and suspicion of the life of the mind and of those who are considered to represent it...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V53I3P90-1.htm (1876 words)

	Richard Hofstadter -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916 - October 24, 1970) was a noted American (A person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it) historian and professor at (A university in New York City) Columbia University.
		Hofstadter was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Buffalo, New York) Buffalo, New York in 1916 to a (Click link for more info and facts about Jewish) Jewish father and a (A person of German nationality) German (Follower of Lutheranism) Lutheran mother, who died when he was ten.
		At the university, Hofstadter became involved in (Click link for more info and facts about left-wing) left-wing politics, joining the (Click link for more info and facts about Young Communist League) Young Communist League and meeting a radical student named Felice Swados whom he would marry in 1936.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/R/Ri/Richard_Hofstadter.htm (499 words)

	Review Richard Hofstadter - Computer Toaster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The classic story of American History, as told by Richard Hofstadter, has rightly come to be thought of as a masterpiece of American history since its original publication in 1948.
		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.
		During the fifties, and up to the time of his death in the sixties, Richard Hofstadter was one of America's most renowned historians with two Pulitzer Prizes to his credit.
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	Anti-Intellectualism in American Life : Richard Hofstadter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		And while the anti-intellectuals in the fifties may have railed against "eggheads," today the GOP directs much of their fury against the "liberal elite." Since most of "the elite" is dirt poor financially, clearly they are aiming their guns at the intellectual elite.
		Figures Hofstadter quotes from the 18th century sound like they could be one of today's right wing pundits.
		Hofstadter's book will assist anyone in understanding why so many Americans are antagonistic towards intellectuals and those who possess an advanced literacy.
	www.bookreviewsandsummaries.com /books31/0394703170.htm (394 words)

	Term Paper on Richard Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition
		Richard Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition, like all his other writings, was greatly influenced by the ideology of the time period in which he wrote.
		Hofstadter's anti-progressive approach was clearly demonstrated in his chapter's on Abraham Lincoln, where he pointed out that the American hero was not without flaws, Wendell Phillips, where he criticized Phillip's critics, and The Spoilsmen, in which he revealed the harsh reality of industrialization and its effect on politics and the economy.
		Hofstadter was part of a cynical undertow in a wave of progressive writing.
	www.swiftpapers.com /essay/Richard_Hofstadters_The_Ameri-35595.html (198 words)

	Reader's Companion to American History - -HOFSTADTER, RICHARD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Unlike most of his professional contemporaries, Hofstadter was not a "specialist," though his mastery of the many subjects to which he gave his attention was widely acknowledged and respected.
		Hofstadter was born in Buffalo, New York, of a Jewish father and Protestant mother, was educated in the public schools there, and attended the University of Buffalo and Columbia University, where he received his doctorate in 1942.
		Hofstadter's most influential books were The American Political Tradition (1948); two Pulitzer Prize winners, The Age of Reform (1955) and Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963); The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington (1968); and The Idea of a Party System (1969).
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_042000_hofstadterri.htm (508 words)

	Richard Hofstadter Biography / Biography of Richard Hofstadter Main Biography
		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 York.
		Hofstadter received his undergraduate education at the University of Buffalo, graduating in 1937.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-richard-hofstadter (246 words)

	The Chronicle: 12/08/2000: The Renaissance of Anti-Intellectualism
		Like many intellectuals, Hofstadter was disturbed by the general disdain for "eggheads," haunted by Joseph McCarthy's thuggish assault on Dean Acheson and his Anglophilic ways, and dismayed by Eisenhower's taste for Western novels and his tangled syntax (which was not yet understood to be, at least sometimes, not simply incompetent but deliberately evasive).
		Hofstadter did most of his research before Kennedy came to the White House, and he understood that Kennedy's brief ascendancy did not change the fundamentals.
		Hofstadter had made much of the distinction between critical intellectuals (suspected, sometimes justifiably, of being ideologues) and expert intellectuals ("on tap, not on top," in the terms of the early atomic scientists), but thanks to the postmodern mood of the intervening decades, many experts had come to be tarred with the same brush as ideologues.
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	The American Political Tradition : And the Men Who Made it (Vintage)
		Hofstadter takes as his guide one figure from each generation starting from the beginning of the Republic, and through biographical sketch describes both the historical figure and the time period he is depicting.
		The point Hofstadter consistently made is how important pragmatic considerations were in the evolution of the great political shakers and movers of American political annals.
		Hofstadter does not discount its impact, but cites the pragmatic necessity of studious compromise involving the interests of important American sociological groups which were often disparate, such as the manufacturing interests of the north and the rural farming interests of the south, as well as slavery and anti-slavery interests.
	www.golfbugs.com /GolfBookstore/isbn0679723153.html (881 words)

	Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Vintage) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Hofstadter is careful to define what he means by the intellect and intellectuals.
		Hofstadter goes on to cite examples of anti-intellectualism from the nations founding to today.
		Turning to education, Hofstadter points out that broad public education in the US was started not for developing the mind or the pride of learning for its own sake, but for its supposed political and economic benefits.
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	Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Vintage), Vintage, Richard Hofstadter
		The major problem with this book is that Hofstadter fails to be always consistent in his analyses of 'intellectuals' with respect what he had defined as 'intellect' -- "the critical, creative, and contemplative side of mind" (p.
		Hofstadter examines the multi-fronted attacks on intellectuals throughout the centuries: attacks from religions who suspected intellectuals of atheism or worse; attacks from the left; attacks from the right; attacks from the lower class who perceived intellectuals as privileged; and attacks from the upper class who worried about the knowledge/power balance.
		Yes, Hofstadter does linger long about the anti-intellectual movement of the early 60s, and some of those references are lost to us, but that cannot be helped nor blamed on him.
	allentech.net /bookstore/item_0394703170.html (997 words)

	Richard Hofstadter
		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.
		As in much of his work, Hofstadter's essay was perhaps short on historical evidence, but long on critical analysis and captivating prose.
		In sum, while he may not be the best writer to go to for sheer historical detail, Richard Hofstadter shrewdly synthesized complex historiographic topics and fearlessly extrapolated from previous times to explain his present.
	www.kevincmurphy.com /hofstadter.html (397 words)

	Richard Hofstadter biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970) was a noted American historian and professor at Columbia University.
		His better-known works include The Age of Reform (1955) and Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1963), both of which won the Pulitzer Prize, as well as The American Political Tradition (1948), and The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1965).
		Hofstadter was born in Buffalo, New York in 1916 to a Jewish father and a German Lutheran mother.
	richard-hofstadter.biography.ms (412 words)

	Richard Hofstadter and the "paranoid style" of politics
		But Frum was President Bush's speechwriter, and Richard Perle is one of the leading figures of the neoconservatives, and in his role on the Defense Policy Board and in the Pentagon's lie factory, the Office of Special Plans, he was one of the architects of the Iraq War and the preventive war policy.
		I think Hofstadter's observations on this point are an important clue to conservative obsession with comma-dancing, with nit-picking often minor or irrelevant points.
		Hofstadter would not have been surprised that the 9/11 attacks provided a golden opportunity for the paranoid style to flourish: "Catastrophe or the fear of catastrophe is most likely to elicit the syndrome of paranoid rhetoric."
	journals.aol.com /bmiller224/OldHickorysWeblog/entries/2361 (2673 words)

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