1995), The Progressive Historians (1968, repr. 1999), The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1965, repr. 1992), The American Political Tradition (1948, rev. His other major works include Social Darwinism in American Thought (1944, rev. 1999) and Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963). He won Pulitzer Prizes for The Age of Reform (1956, repr. Hofstadter wrote widely on the nation's intellectual, social, and political history. One of the most brilliant of 20th-century American historians, he did not believe that economic self-interest was the sole motivator of human conduct and in his work stressed America's tradition of shared ideas and values.
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. Vivid chapters on "white servitude" and slavery.Hofstadter, Richard hōf´stăt˝ər, hŏf´–, hôf´–, 1916–70, American historian, b. Unfinished at Hofstadter's death, and published posthumously, this is the first installment of a projected three-volume history of America and Hofstadter's one sustained attempt at traditional narrative. Parrington and also clarifies his own counter-progressiveĪpproach, with its emphasis on "a vital kind of moral consensus that I would call comity." Hofstadter critically examines the writings of three towering historians from the generation preceding his own Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles Beard and V.L. Hofstadter's second Pulitzer winner is a discursive meditation covering religion and politics, business and academic life on the long history of philistinism in the United States, from the Colonial era Of the regulatory innovations of the New Deal, were in fact retrograde protests, sharpened by "status anxiety," against the growing industrialization of modern-day America. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and among the most influential books ever written on 20th-century America, it makes the revisionist case that the Populist and Progressive movements, though usually interpreted as forerunners 'The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R.' The "consensus" theory of American history.
Today Hofstadter's most widely read book, this study of "the ideology of American statesmanship," with its profiles, often satirical, of leaders from Thomas Jefferson to Franklin D. 'The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made It' The titles are linked to the original New York Times reviews of the books (presented in pdf format). Brownįollowing is a selective list of books by Richard Hofstadter, who is the subject of a new biography by David S. Related Obituary: Richard Hofstadter Sam Tanenhaus's Review of 'Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography,' by David S.
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