Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography
Richard Hofstadter () was America’s most distinguished historian of the twentieth century. The author of several groundbreaking books, including The American Political Tradition, he was a vigorous champion of the liberal politics that emerged from the New Deal. During his nearly thirty-year career, Hofstadter fought public campaigns against liberalism’s most dynamic opponents, from McCarthy in the s to Barry Goldwater and the Sun Belt conservatives in the s. His opposition to the extreme politics of postwar America—articulated in his books, essays, and public lectures—marked him as one of the nation’s most important and prolific public intellectuals.
In this masterful biography, David Brown explores Hofstadter’s life within the context of the rise and fall of American liberalism. A fierce advocate of academic freedom, racial justice, and political pluralism, Hofstadter charted in his works 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 cosmopolit
Richard Hofstadter
Richard Hofstadter () was America's most distinguished historian of the twentieth century. The author of several groundbreaking books, including The American Political Tradition, he was a vigorous champion of the liberal politics that emerged from the New Deal. During his nearly thirty-year career, Hofstadter fought public campaigns against liberalism's most dynamic opponents, from McCarthy in the s to Barry Goldwater and the Sun Belt conservatives in the s. His opposition to the extreme politics of postwar America—articulated in his books, essays, and public lectures—marked him as one of the nation's most important and prolific public intellectuals. In this masterful biography, David Brown explores Hofstadter's life within the context of the rise and fall of American liberalism. A fierce advocate of academic freedom, racial justice, and political pluralism, Hofstadter charted in his works 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-intel
Richard Hofstadter
Reviews
&#;Eventually, most wised-up readers of history come to agree with the advice of E. H. Carr, cited and honored by David S. Brown, that &#;Before you study the history, study the historian.&#; The payoff of Brown&#;s effort comes in Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography, an incisive interpretive profile.&#;
Carlin Romano | Chronicle of Higher Education
&#;[In] his intelligent and stimulating book. . . . Brown admirably balances respect for his subject with critical distance and persuasively makes the case that the ambiguousness of Hofstadter&#;s legacy is inseparable from his continuing interest. . . . At his best, Hofstadter remains vitally alive and endlessly instructive.&#;
Sam Tanenhaus | New York Times Book Review
"The most important political book of that is not a book about politics at all."
E.J. Dionne | Washington Post
"Hofstadters’s achievement, as the great historian of postwar liberalism, could hardly be a more perfect mirror of his age. As David Brown shows in his fascinating new study . . . Hofstadter’s life and times prepared him to be the kind of historian he was. Indeed, the sometimes unsettling insi
Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography (review
Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography (review) Regina Morantz-Sanchez American Studies, Volume 48, Number 1, Spring , pp. (Article) Published by Mid-American Studies Association DOI: /ams For additional information about this article Access Provided by your local institution at 02/21/13 PM GMT RACE AND SPORT: The Struggle for Equality On and Off the Field. Edited by Charles K. Ross. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. Race and Sport is a collection of essays. All relate to the topic, but because the area is so extensive, the essays do not form a cohesive body of work. Topics, approaches, and quality vary from one essay to the next. Together, the essays constitute a collection that will provide useful reference and starting points for whomever would understand the subject. Perhaps the most useful essay of the collection (at any rate, useful to me as I am interested in the long-term integration of professional baseball) is “Major League Baseball’s Separate and Unequal Doctrine” by Michael Lomax. Lomax traces the action by some major league teams to cope with racial discrimination in Southern spring training sett
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