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Background. Hofstadter's 1959 BBC radio lecture on "The American Right Wing and the Paranoid Style" was later revised and published as "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" in the November 1964 Harper's Magazine.
- Richard Hofstadter
- 1964
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Events since 1939 have given the contemporary right-wing paranoid a vast theatre for his imagination, full of rich and proliferating detail, replete with realistic cues and undeniable proofs of the validity of his suspicions.
Jan 20, 2014 · I n his Easy Chair column this month, Thomas Frank revisits the historian Richard Hofstadter’s famous essay, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” whose fiftieth anniversary of publication will be November of this year.
Hofstadter's work on the American right began in the early 1950s, while he was researching what would become The Age of Reform. In 1954, his essay, "The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt," appeared in The American Scholar. That essay, which was reprinted with an afterword in the 1965 Paranoid Style collection, outlines many of the book's main ideas.
In its original formulation, the “paranoid style” was mainly a right-wing phenomenon; the concept evolved, in Hofstadter’s mind, into an American phenomenon.
Jan 4, 2012 · The Paranoid Style in American Politics. Richard Hofstadter. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jan 4, 2012 - Political Science - 368 pages. This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic...
The phrase “paranoid style” has been bandied about in discussions of American politics ever since Hofstadter wrote his article, back in the 1960s. It points to an irrational fearfulness directed by the American right towards such people as communists, socialists, liberals and ethnic minorities.
