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Howard Zinn. Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916 – October 24, 1970) was an American historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century. Hofstadter was the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. Rejecting his earlier historical materialist approach to history, in the 1950s he came closer to the concept of ...
Mr. Hofstadter has put a similar rethinking on the agenda of the liberals. And he has done it while ignoring the tradition that serious books must be dull and by illuminating his themes by a brilliant aphoristic style that really brightens and does not blind. An important and, to use a cliché, an exciting book.” 27 Close
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Accordingly, the citations in the book reflect his exploration of critical sociology, especially works by thinkers, such as Theodor Adorno, Leo Löwenthal, Seymour Martin Lipset, and Daniel Bell, who had applied psychoanalytic theory to the study of fascism and right-wing extremism. Hofstadter's use of social science served the additional ...
RICHARD HOFSTADTER'S THE AGE OF REFORM: A RECONSIDERATION. Alan Brinkley. Even its detractors (and there are many) might be inclined to agree that Richard Hofstadter's The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R. is the most influential book ever published on the history of twentieth-century America.
Aug 6, 2006 · Hofstadter’s books were also long-form essays, and they survive today as bravura performances rather than as instances of high scholarship. His signature works, including his two Pulitzer Prize ...
Nov 1, 1998 · Richard Hofstadter's Tradition. Fifty years ago, amid trying personal circumstances, an audacious young historian wrote a book of lasting merit about American Presidents and their politics. By ...
Richard Hofstadter has portrayed the agricultural spokesman William Jennings Bryan as a moralist in politics and has debunked the Great Commoner's reform reputation.3 Then, in his Age of Reform, the Columbia University historian, adopting terms from sociology to describe his subjects, bore in upon the larger
