Richard Hofstadter : an intellectual biography / David S. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, David S. (David Scott), 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hofstadter, Richard, 1916-1970.

Hofstadter, Richard.

Historians--United States--Biography.

Historians.

United States.

Genre:

Biographie.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

291 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2006.

Summary:

"In this biography, Davis S. Brown explores Hofstadter's life in the context of American liberalism's dramatic rise and sudden fall. A resourceful advocate of academic freedom, racial justice, and political pluralism, Hofstadter charted the changing nature of American society from a provincial Protestant foundation to one based on the values of an urban and multiethnic nation. According to Brown, Hofstadter presciently saw in rural America's hostility to this cosmopolitanism signs of an anti-intellectualism that he believed were dangerously endemic in a mass democracy."--Jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Interior, exterior.

pt. I. Education, 1916-1950. Radical roots ; The twilight of waspdom ; The new American political tradition ; The historian as social scientist.

pt. II. Engagement, 1950-1965. The Age of reform and its critics ; The crisis of intellect ; The paranoid mind.

pt. III. Eclipse, 1965-1970. Rebellion from within ; Conflict and consensus

redux ; The trials of liberalism ; A world full.

Bibliographic essay: In search of Richard Hofstadter.

Sources: Archives, interviews, and correspondence.

Students of Richard Hofstadter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-279) and index.

ISBN:

0226076407

9780226076409

0226076415

9780226076416

OCLC:

60743149

Publisher Number:

9780226076409

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