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| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: The American Political Tradition Richard Hofstadter, 1989-04-23 The American Political Tradition is one of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. First published in 1948, its elegance, passion, and iconoclastic erudition laid the groundwork for a totally new understanding of the American past. By writing a kind of intellectual history of the assumptions behind American politics, Richard Hofstadter changed the way Americans understand the relationship between power and ideas in their national experience. Like only a handful of American historians before him—Frederick Jackson Turner and Charles A. Beard are examples—Hofstadter was able to articulate, in a single work, a historical vision that inspired and shaped an entire generation. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: The Paranoid Style in American Politics Richard Hofstadter, 2008-06-10 This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs.In The Paranoid Style in American Politics, acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how fringe groups can influence — and derail — the larger agendas of a political party. He investigates the politics of the irrational, shedding light on how the behavior of individuals can seem out of proportion with actual political issues, and how such behavior impacts larger groups. With such other classic essays as “Free Silver and the Mind of 'Coin' Harvey” and “What Happened to the Antitrust Movement?, ” The Paranoid Style in American Politics remains both a seminal text of political history and a vital analysis of the ways in which political groups function in the United States. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life Richard Hofstadter, 2012-01-04 Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society. As Mr. Hofstadter unfolds the fascinating story, it is no crude battle of eggheads and fatheads. It is a rich, complex, shifting picture of the life of the mind in a society dominated by the ideal of practical success. —Robert Peel in the Christian Science Monitor |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: America at 1750 Richard Hofstadter, 2012-01-04 Demonstrates how the colonies developed into the first nation created under the influences of nationalism, modern capitalism and Protestantism. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: Richard Hofstadter David S. Brown, 2008-09-15 Richard Hofstadter (1916-70) 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 1950s to Barry Goldwater and the Sun Belt conservatives in the 1960s. 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-intellectualism that he believed was dangerously endemic in a mass democracy. By the end of a life cut short by leukemia, Hofstadter had won two Pulitzer Prizes, and his books had attracted international attention. Yet the Vietnam years, as Brown shows, culminated in a conservative reaction to his work that is still with us. Whether one agrees with Hofstadter’s critics or with the noted historian John Higham, who insisted that Hofstadter was “the finest and also the most humane intelligence of our generation,” the importance of this seminal thinker cannot be denied. As this fascinating biography ultimately shows, Hofstadter’s observations on the struggle between conservative and liberal America are relevant to our own times, and his legacy challenges us to this day. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: The American Political Tradition Richard Hofstadter, 1962 |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: The Age of Reform Richard Hofstadter, 2011-12-21 WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and preeminent historian comes a landmark in American political thought that examines the passion for progress and reform during 1890 to 1940. The Age of Reform searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers the myths and dreams in which they believed, and the realities with which they had to compromise. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: Progressive Historians Richard Hofstadter, 2012-02-29 Richard Hofstadter, the distinguished historian and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, brilliantly assesses the ideas and contributions of the three major American interpretive historians of the twentieth century: Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard and V.L. Parrington. These men, whose views of history were shaped in large part by the political battles of the Progressive era, provided the Progressive movement with a usable past and the American liberal mind with a historical tradition. The Progressive Historians is at once a critique of historical thought during this decisive period of American development and an account of how these three writers led American historians into the controversial political world of the twentieth century. Turner, in developing his idea that American democracy is the outcome of the experience of frontier expansion and the settlement of the West, introduced his fellow historians to a set of new concepts and methods, and in doing so doing re-drew the guidelines of American historiography. Beard insisted upon the elitist origins of the Constitution, crusaded for the economic interpretation of history, and ultimately staked his historical reputation on an isolationist view of recent American foreign policy. Parrington emphasized the moral and social functions of literature, and read the history of literature as a history of the national political mind. In recent years, the tide has run against the Progressive historians, as one specialist after another has taken issue with their interpretations. The movement of contemporary historical thought has led to a rediscovery of the complexity of the American past. Although he cannot share the faith of the Progressive historians in the sufficiency of American liberalism as a guide to the modern world, Richard Hofstadter believes we have much to learn about ourselves from a reconsideration of their insights. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: The Other Founders Saul Cornell, 2012-12-01 Fear of centralized authority is deeply rooted in American history. The struggle over the U.S. Constitution in 1788 pitted the Federalists, supporters of a stronger central government, against the Anti-Federalists, the champions of a more localist vision of politics. But, argues Saul Cornell, while the Federalists may have won the battle over ratification, it is the ideas of the Anti-Federalists that continue to define the soul of American politics. While no Anti-Federalist party emerged after ratification, Anti-Federalism continued to help define the limits of legitimate dissent within the American constitutional tradition for decades. Anti-Federalist ideas also exerted an important influence on Jeffersonianism and Jacksonianism. Exploring the full range of Anti-Federalist thought, Cornell illustrates its continuing relevance in the politics of the early Republic. A new look at the Anti-Federalists is particularly timely given the recent revival of interest in this once neglected group, notes Cornell. Now widely reprinted, Anti-Federalist writings are increasingly quoted by legal scholars and cited in Supreme Court decisions--clear proof that their authors are now counted among the ranks of America's founders. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: American Violence Richard Hofstadter, Michael Wallace, 2012-03-07 With eyewitness accounts and contemporary reports—linked together by succinct analytical commentaries—Richard Hofstadter and his young collaborator, Michael Wallace, have created a superb documentary reader that is, in effect, a history of violence in America through four centuries. Here, as experienced by men and women who lived through them, are not only the familiar, chilling eruptions—Harper’s Ferry; the Civil War draft riot in New York; Homestead; Centralia; the Detroit ghetto; the assassinations of Lincoln, Malcolm X, and Robert Kennedy—but also less commonly remembered episodes, such as the New York slave riots of 1712, the doctors’ riot of 1788, vigilante terror in Montana, the anti-Chinese riot in Los Angeles in 1871, and the White League coup d’état of 1874 in New Orleans. In his extensive introduction, Richard Hofstadter shows how, in the face of the record, Americans have had an extraordinary ability to persuade themselves that they are among the best-behaved and the best-regulated of peoples. With more than one hundred entries, the editors have documented and put into perspective the thread of violence in American history whose rediscovery—as Hofstadter suggests—will undoubtedly be one of the most important intellectual legacies of the 1960’s. The book clearly demonstrates, even as the reader comes to grips with long-eluded truths, that America’s consistent history of violence has not yet breached beyond hope of restoration our long record of basic political stability, that most social reforms in the United States have been brought about without violence. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956-1965 (LOA #330) Richard Hofstadter, 2020-04-21 Together for the first time: two masterworks on the undercurrents of the American mind by one of our greatest historians Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life and The Paranoid Style in American Politics are two essential works that lay bare the worrying trends of irrationalism, demagoguery, destructive populism, and conspiratorial thinking that have long influenced American politics and culture. Whether underground or--as in our present moment--out in the open, these currents of resentment, suspicion, and conspiratorial delusion received their authoritative treatment from Hofstadter, among the greatest of twentieth-century American historians, at a time when many public intellectuals and scholars did not take them seriously enough. These two masterworks are joined here by Sean Wilentz's selection of Hofstadter's most trenchant uncollected writings of the postwar period: discussions of the Constitution's framers, the personality and legacy of FDR, higher education and its discontents, the relationship of fundamentalism to right-wing politics, and the advent of the modern conservative movement. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It Richard Hofstadter, 1976 |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: The Idea of a Party System Richard Hofstadter, 1969 This volume traces the historical processes in thought by which American political leaders slowly edged away from their complete philosophical rejection of a party and hesitantly began to embrace a party system. The author's analysis of the idea of party and the development of legitimate opposition offers fresh insights into the political crisis of 1797-1801, on the thought of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Martin Van Buren, and other leading figures, and on the beginnings of modern democratic politics. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: The Irony of Manifest Destiny William Pfaff, 2010-07-23 For years there has been little or no critical reexamination of how and why the ultimately successful postwar American policy of 'patient but firm and vigilant containment of Soviet expansionist tendencies...and pressure against the free institutions of the western world' (as George Kennan formulated it at the time) has over six decades turned into a vast project for ending tyranny in the world. We defend this position by making the claim that the United States possesses an exceptional status among nations that confers upon it special international responsibilities, and exceptional privileges in meeting those responsibilities. This is where the problem lies. It has become somewhat of a national heresy to suggest the U.S. does not have a unique moral status and role to play in the history of nations and therefore in the affairs of the contemporary world. In fact it does not. Cogently, thoughtfully, powerfully, William Pfaff--whose columns and commentary over the past 40-odd years have given him the widest international influence of any American commentator--lays out the historical roots behind the American exceptionalism that has animated our politics and foreign relations for decades, and makes clear why it is flawed and bound to fail. Those roots lie in the secularization of western society brought about by the Enlightenment. My proposition in this book is that the United States' spearation from 1800 to 1941 from the common history of the west has disqualified it from the mandate it has assumed as the society that embodies the future...and in many ways is responsible for the impasse in which it finds itself at the end of the disastrous events of the last 8 years. It has failed to learn from experience because it lacks the indispensable experience Europeans have acquired of modern ideological folly and national tragedy. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: The Genius of American Politics Daniel J. Boorstin, 1958-10-15 How much of our political tradition can be absorbed and used by other peoples? Daniel Boorstin's answer to this question has been chosen by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for representation in American Panorama as one of the 350 books, old and new, most descriptive of life in the United States. He describes the uniqueness of American thought and explains, after a close look at the American past, why we have not produced and are not likely to produce grand political theories or successful propaganda. He also suggests what our attitudes must be toward ourselves and other countries if we are to preserve our institutions and help others to improve theirs. . . . a fresh and, on the whole, valid interpretation of American political life.—Reinhold Niebuhr, New Leader |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: Republic of Spin: An Inside History of the American Presidency David Greenberg, 2016-01-11 “A brilliant, fast-moving narrative history of the leaders who have defined the modern American presidency.”—Bob Woodward In Republic of Spin—a vibrant history covering more than one hundred years of politics—presidential historian David Greenberg recounts the rise of the White House spin machine, from Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama. His sweeping, startling narrative takes us behind the scenes to see how the tools and techniques of image making and message craft work. We meet Woodrow Wilson convening the first White House press conference, Franklin Roosevelt huddling with his private pollsters, Ronald Reagan’s aides crafting his nightly news sound bites, and George W. Bush staging his “Mission Accomplished” photo-op. We meet, too, the backstage visionaries who pioneered new ways of gauging public opinion and mastering the media—figures like George Cortelyou, TR’s brilliantly efficient press manager; 1920s ad whiz Bruce Barton; Robert Montgomery, Dwight Eisenhower’s canny TV coach; and of course the key spinmeisters of our own times, from Roger Ailes to David Axelrod. Greenberg also examines the profound debates Americans have waged over the effect of spin on our politics. Does spin help our leaders manipulate the citizenry? Or does it allow them to engage us more fully in the democratic project? Exploring the ideas of the century’s most incisive political critics, from Walter Lippmann and H. L. Mencken to Hannah Arendt and Stephen Colbert, Republic of Spin illuminates both the power of spin and its limitations—its capacity not only to mislead but also to lead. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: The Stormy Present Adam I. P. Smith, 2017-10-06 In this engaging and nuanced political history of Northern communities in the Civil War era, Adam I. P. Smith offers a new interpretation of the familiar story of the path to war and ultimate victory. Smith looks beyond the political divisions between abolitionist Republicans and Copperhead Democrats to consider the everyday conservatism that characterized the majority of Northern voters. A sense of ongoing crisis in these Northern states created anxiety and instability, which manifested in a range of social and political tensions in individual communities. In the face of such realities, Smith argues that a conservative impulse was more than just a historical or nostalgic tendency; it was fundamental to charting a path to the future. At stake for Northerners was their conception of the Union as the vanguard in a global struggle between democracy and despotism, and their ability to navigate their freedoms through the stormy waters of modernity. As a result, the language of conservatism was peculiarly, and revealingly, prominent in Northern politics during these years. The story this book tells is of conservative people coming, in the end, to accept radical change. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: The American political tradition Richard Horstadter, 1948 |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: From the New Deal to the New Right Joseph E. Lowndes, 2008-10-01 The role the South has played in contemporary conservatism is perhaps the most consequential political phenomenon of the second half of the twentieth century. The regions transition from Democratic stronghold to Republican base has frequently been viewed as a recent occurrence, one that largely stems from a 1960s-era backlash against left-leaning social movements. But as Joseph Lowndes argues in this book, this rightward shift was not necessarily a natural response by alienated whites, but rather the result of the long-term development of an alliance between Southern segregationists and Northern conservatives, two groups who initially shared little beyond opposition to specific New Deal imperatives. Lowndes focuses his narrative on the formative period between the end of the Second World War and the Nixon years. By looking at the 1948 Dixiecrat Revolt, the presidential campaigns of George Wallace, and popular representations of the region, he shows the many ways in which the South changed during these decades. Lowndes traces how a new alliance began to emerge by further examining the pages of the National Review and Republican party-building efforts in the South during the campaigns of Eisenhower, Goldwater, and Nixon. The unique characteristics of American conservatism were forged in the crucible of race relations in the South, he argues, and his analysis of party-building efforts, national institutions, and the innovations of particular political actors provides a keen look into the ideology of modern conservatism and the Republican Party. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: great issues in american history , 1958 |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: Desolation and Enlightenment Ira Katznelson, 2020-10-13 During and especially after World War II, a group of leading scholars who had been perilously close to the war’s devastation joined others fortunate enough to have been protected by distance in an effort to redefine and reinvigorate liberal ideals for a radically new age. Treating evil as an analytical category, they sought to discover the sources of twentieth-century horror and the potentialities of the modern state in the wake of desolation. In the process, they devised strikingly new ways to understand politics, sociology, and history that reverberate still. In this major intellectual history, Ira Katznelson examines the works of Hannah Arendt, Robert Dahl, Richard Hofstadter, Harold Lasswell, Charles Lindblom, Karl Polanyi, and David Truman, detailing their engagement with the larger project of reclaiming the West’s moral bearing. In light of their epoch’s calamities, these intellectuals insisted that the tradition of Enlightenment thought required a new realism, a good deal of renovation, and much recommitment. This array of historians, political philosophers, and social scientists understood that a simple reassertion of liberal modernism had been made radically insufficient by the enormities and moral catastrophes of war, totalitarianism, and the Holocaust. Confronting dashed hopes for reason and knowledge, they asked not just whether the Enlightenment should define modernity but also which Enlightenment we should wish to have. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: Social Darwinism in American Thought Richard Hofstadter, 1959 Tracing the impact of Darwin on thinkers throughout the gilded Age and the Progressive era, 'Social Darwinism' shows how a politically neutral scientific theory has been adapted with skillful rhetoric to contradictory purposes. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: Goliath Matt Stoller, 2020-10-06 “Every thinking American must read” (The Washington Book Review) this startling and “insightful” (The New York Times) look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism has transformed American politics, and business. Going back to our country’s founding, Americans once had a coherent and clear understanding of political tyranny, one crafted by Thomas Jefferson and updated for the industrial age by Louis Brandeis. A concentration of power—whether by government or banks—was understood as autocratic and dangerous to individual liberty and democracy. In the 1930s, people observed that the Great Depression was caused by financial concentration in the hands of a few whose misuse of their power induced a financial collapse. They drew on this tradition to craft the New Deal. In Goliath, Matt Stoller explains how authoritarianism and populism have returned to American politics for the first time in eighty years, as the outcome of the 2016 election shook our faith in democratic institutions. It has brought to the fore dangerous forces that many modern Americans never even knew existed. Today’s bitter recriminations and panic represent more than just fear of the future, they reflect a basic confusion about what is happening and the historical backstory that brought us to this moment. The true effects of populism, a shrinking middle class, and concentrated financial wealth are only just beginning to manifest themselves under the current administrations. The lessons of Stoller’s study will only grow more relevant as time passes. “An engaging call to arms,” (Kirkus Reviews) Stoller illustrates here in rich detail how we arrived at this tenuous moment, and the steps we must take to create a new democracy. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: Contested Truths Daniel T. Rodgers, 1998 This is a witty, erudite, and original synthesis, which in spite of its brevity gives density and connectedness to two centuries of American political thought. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: How Democratic Is the American Constitution? Robert A. Dahl, 2003-11-10 In this provocative book, one of our most eminent political scientists questions the extent to which the American Constitution furthers democratic goals. Robert Dahl reveals the Constitution's potentially antidemocratic elements and explains why they are there, compares the American constitutional system to other democratic systems, and explores how we might alter our political system to achieve greater equality among citizens. In a new chapter for this second edition, he shows how increasing differences in state populations revealed by the Census of 2000 have further increased the veto power over constitutional amendments held by a tiny minority of Americans. He then explores the prospects for changing some important political practices that are not prescribed by the written Constitution, though most Americans may assume them to be so. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: Progressivism Bradley C. S. Watson, 2020-02-28 At its core this book is intellectual history, tracing the work of progressive historians as they in turn wrote the history of progressivism. In Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea, Bradley C. S. Watson presents an intellectual history of American progressivism as a philosophical-political phenomenon, focusing on how and with what consequences the academic discipline of history came to accept and propagate it. This book offers a meticulously detailed historiography and critique of the insularity and biases of academic culture. It shows how the first scholarly interpreters of progressivism were, in large measure, also its intellectual architects, and later interpreters were in deep sympathy with their premises and conclusions. Too many scholarly treatments of the progressive synthesis were products of it, or at least were insufficiently mindful of two central facts: the hostility of progressive theory to the Founders’ Constitution and the tension between progressive theory and the realm of the private, including even conscience itself. The constitutional and religious dimensions of progressive thought—and, in particular, the relationship between the two—remained hidden for much of the twentieth century. This pathbreaking volume reveals how and why this scholarly obfuscation occurred. The book will interest students and scholars of American political thought, the Progressive Era, and historiography, and it will be a useful reference work for anyone in history, law, and political science. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: The Populist Persuasion Michael Kazin, 1998-10-29 Traces the history of populism in the United States from the time of Thomas Jefferson to the era of Bill Clinton. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: The Politics of Petulance Alan Wolfe, 2018-10-03 How did we get into this mess? Every morning, many Americans ask this as, with a cringe, they pick up their phones and look to see what terrible thing President Trump has just said or done. Regardless of what he’s complaining about or whom he’s attacking, a second question comes hard on the heels of the first: How on earth do we get out of this? Alan Wolfe has an answer. In The Politics of Petulance he argues that the core of our problem isn’t Trump himself—it’s that we are mired in an age of political immaturity. That immaturity is not grounded in any one ideology, nor is it a function of age or education. It’s in an abdication of valuing the character of would-be leaders; it’s in a failure to acknowledge, even welcome the complexity of government and society; and it’s in a loss of the ability to be skeptical without being suspicious. In 2016, many Americans were offered tantalizingly simple answers to complicated problems, and, like children being offered a lunch of Pop Rocks and Coke, they reflexively—and mindlessly—accepted. The good news, such as it is, is that we’ve been here before. Wolfe reminds us that we know how to grow up and face down Trump and other demagogues. Wolfe reinvigorates the tradition of public engagement exemplified by midcentury intellectuals such as Richard Hofstadter, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Lionel Trilling—and he draws lessons from their battles with McCarthyism and conspiratorial paranoia. Wolfe mounts a powerful case that we can learn from them to forge a new path for political intervention today. Wolfe has been thinking and writing about American life and politics for decades. He sees this moment as one of real risk. But he’s not throwing up his hands; he’s bracing us. We’ve faced demagogues before. We can find the intellectual maturity to fight back. Yes we can. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: Liberalism's Crooked Circle Ira Katznelson, 1998-09-13 This book is a profoundly moving attempt to shift the terms of discussion in American politics. (Ira) Katznelson's prose style is as elegant as his political stance is sophisticated. This is a subtle, searching examination of liberalism's complicated relationship to concerns about class inequality and social difference.--LIBRARY JOURNAL. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: The American Presidency Charles O. Jones, 2016 The second edition of this Very Short Introduction focuses on the challenges facing American presidents in meeting the high expectations of the position in a separation-of-powers system. This ... revision explores critical issues that are [the] object of contemporary debate and shows how the American presidency evolved over the past 200 years and where it may go in the future-- |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: Writing American History John Higham, 1970 |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: American Conservatism Andrew J. Bacevich, 2020-04-07 As the nation stands at a crossroads, this “valuable collection” urges us to reexamine the ideas and values of the American conservative tradition—offering “a bracing tonic for the present chaos” (The Washington Post). A groundbreaking collection of mainstream conservative writings since 1900, featuring pieces by Ronald Reagan, Antonin Scalia, Joan Didion, and more What is American conservatism? What are its core beliefs and values? What answers can it offer to the fundamental questions we face in the twenty-first century about the common good and the meaning of freedom, the responsibilities of citizenship, and America’s proper role in the world? As libertarians, neoconservatives, Never Trump-ers, and others battle over the label, this landmark collection offers an essential survey of conservative thought in the United States since 1900, highlighting the centrality of four key themes: the importance of tradition and the local, resistance to an ever-expanding state, opposition to the threat of tyranny at home and abroad, and free markets as the key to sustaining individual liberty. Andrew J. Bacevich’s incisive selections reveal that American conservatism—in his words “more akin to an ethos or a disposition than a fixed ideology”—has hardly been a monolithic entity over the last 120 years, but rather has developed through fierce internal debate about basic political and social propositions. Well-known figures such as Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley are complemented here by important but less familiar thinkers such as Richard Weaver and Robert Nisbet, as well as writers not of the political right, like Randolph Bourne, Joan Didion, and Reinhold Niebuhr, who have been important influences on conservative thinking. More relevant than ever, this rich, too often overlooked vein of writing provides essential insights into who Americans are as a people and offers surprising hope, in a time of extreme polarization, for finding common ground. It deserves to be rediscovered by readers of all political persuasions. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: American Individualism Herbert Hoover, 1922 In this book, Hoover expounds and vigorously defends what has come to be called American exceptionalism: the set of beliefs and values that still makes America unique. He argues that America can make steady, sure progress if we preserve our individualism, preserve and stimulate the initiative of our people, insist on and maintain the safeguards to equality of opportunity, and honor service as a part of our national character. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: Violence in America: Historical and Comparative Perspectives Hugh Davis Graham, Ted Robert Gurr, 1969 |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: The Americanist Daniel Aaron, 2009-12-18 “I have read all of Daniel Aaron’s books, and admired them, but in The Americanist I believe he has composed an intellectual and social memoir for which he will be remembered. His self-portrait is marked by personal tact and admirable restraint: he is and is not its subject. The Americanist is a vision of otherness: literary and academic friends and acquaintances, here and abroad. Eloquently phrased and free of nostalgia, it catches a lost world that yet engendered much of our own.” —Harold Bloom “The Americanist is the absorbing intellectual autobiography of Daniel Aaron, who is the leading proponent and practitioner of American Studies. Written with grace and wit, it skillfully blends Daniel Aaron’s personal story with the history of the field he has done so much to create. This is a first-rate book by a first-rate scholar.” —David Herbert Donald, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University The Americanist is author and critic Daniel Aaron’s anthem to nearly a century of public and private life in America and abroad. Aaron, who is widely regarded as one of the founders of American Studies, graduated from the University of Michigan, received his Ph.D. from Harvard, and taught for over three decades each at Smith College and Harvard. Aaron writes with unsentimental nostalgia about his childhood in Los Angeles and Chicago and his later academic career, which took him around the globe, often in the role of America’s accidental yet impartial critic. When Walt Whitman, whom Aaron frequently cites as a touchstone, wrote, “I am large, I contain multitudes,” he could have been describing Daniel Aaron—the consummate erudite and Renaissance individual whose allegiance to the truth always outweighs mere partisan loyalty. Not only should Aaron’s book stand as a resplendent and summative work from one of the finest thinkers of the last hundred years, it also succeeds on its own as a first-rate piece of literature, on a par with the writings of any of its subjects. The Americanist is a veritable Who’s Who of twentieth-century writers Aaron interviewed, interacted with, or otherwise encountered throughout his life: Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, Lillian Hellman, Richard Hofstadter, Alfred Kazin, Sinclair Lewis, Malcolm Muggeridge, John Crowe Ransom, Upton Sinclair, Edmund Wilson, Leonard Woolf, and W. B. Yeats, to name only a few. Aaron’s frank and personal observations of these literary lights make for lively reading. As well, scattered throughout The Americanist are illuminating portraits of American presidents living and passed—miniature masterworks of astute political observation that offer dazzlingly fresh approaches to well-trod subjects. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: Natural Rights and the New Republicanism Michael Zuckert, 2011-06-27 In Natural Rights and the New Republicanism, Michael Zuckert proposes a new view of the political philosophy that lay behind the founding of the United States. In a book that will interest political scientists, historians, and philosophers, Zuckert looks at the Whig or opposition tradition as it developed in England. He argues that there were, in fact, three opposition traditions: Protestant, Grotian, and Lockean. Before the English Civil War the opposition was inspired by the effort to find the one true Protestant politics--an effort that was seen to be a failure by the end of the Interregnum period. The Restoration saw the emergence of the Whigs, who sought a way to ground politics free from the sectarian theological-scriptural conflicts of the previous period. The Whigs were particularly influenced by the Dutch natural law philosopher Hugo Grotius. However, as Zuckert shows, by the mid-eighteenth century John Locke had replaced Grotius as the philosopher of the Whigs. Zuckert's analysis concludes with a penetrating examination of John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, the English Cato, who, he argues, brought together Lockean political philosophy and pre-existing Whig political science into a new and powerful synthesis. Although it has been misleadingly presented as a separate classical republican tradition in recent scholarly discussions, it is this new republicanism that served as the philosophical point of departure for the founders of the American republic. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: The Progressive Movement, 1900-1915 Richard Hofstadter, 1963 A collection of documents from the Progressive Movement, loosely divided into four catagories: The Muckrakers; Social & Moral Issues; Bossism & Political Reform; The Trusts & Big Business. Each author is briefly profiled, and background information is given about his or her document. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: A Disquisition on Government John Caldwell Calhoun, 1851 |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: Philosophies of Art & Beauty Albert Hofstadter, Richard Kuhns, 2009-02-04 This anthology is remarkable not only for the selections themselves, among which the Schelling and the Heidegger essays were translated especially for this volume, but also for the editors' general introduction and the introductory essays for each selection, which make this volume an invaluable aid to the study of the powerful, recurrent ideas concerning art, beauty, critical method, and the nature of representation. Because this collection makes clear the ways in which the philosophy of art relates to and is part of general philosophical positions, it will be an essential sourcebook to students of philosophy, art history, and literary criticism. |
| the american political tradition richard hofstadter: The Intellectuals and McCarthy Michael Paul Rogin, 1967 |
Richard Hofstadter Papers, 1944-1970 - Columbia University
Hofstadter wrote some of the most influential books to appear in American political and cultural history, among them The Age of Reform (1955) and Anti-Intellectualism in American Life …
the American political tradition. By Richard Hofstadter ... - JSTOR
Tradition and The Age of Reform. The American Political Tradition first appeared in 1948 and is a collection of twelve biographical portraits. Nine of these are of men prominent in politics; two …
The (New) American Political Tradition - Cambridge University …
In a dozen tightly connected essays, Hofstadter pro-filed the Americans—the presidents, protesters, and political hacks—who defined the nation’s distinctive political legacy. Shaped by …
The American Political Tradition
The American Political Tradition. And the Men Who Made It. By. Richard Hofstadter. CHAPTER V. ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE SELF-MADE MYTH. I HAPPEN, temporarily, to occupy this …
A Keen Sense of History and the Need to Act: Reflections on …
The American Political Tradition is a set of essays on men and groups who played critical roles in American political life. As Hofstadter attested, it was conceived (at least partly) out of a concern …
Richard Hofstadter and American Historiography
The basis for this judgment was The American Political Tradition, a book Hofstadter published in 1948 at the beginning of his career.
Richard Hofstadter The American Political Tradition (2024)
Richard Hofstadter's "The American Political Tradition" is a seminal work in American political history, offering a critical analysis of key figures and events that have shaped the nation's …
“The Important and Unfamiliar”: Richard Hofstadter’s The …
This paper addresses the continued association of Richard Hofstadter with consensus history. More specifically, it challenges the view that the origins of this conservative trend in American …
Hofstadter The American Political Tradition (Download Only)
Richard Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition offers a crucial and enduring contribution to understanding the complexities of American political thought. While not without its critiques, its …
Reflections on Hofstadter’s The American Political Tradition
Hofstadter moved away from an economic reading of history to one that looked to social-psychological explanations for political behaviour and trends. Identifying status anxieties rather …
Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The …
American political tradition was, Hofstadter argued, blind to alternative political possibilities, whether threats of social vi-olence and domination or visions of a more just and humane …
RUNNING HEAD. Hofstadter’s American Tradition
Richard Hofstadter published his second book, The American political tradition and the men who made it (1948). On the surface, the work was an orthodox one, consisting as it did of twelve …
Richard Hofstadter: The Ironies of an American Historian
Hofstadter took advantage of both the social-science flavor and the tone of condescension these words imparted to his writings. He expatiated on the agrarian "myth," the "folklore" of self-help, …
A MEASURE OF DETACHMENT: RICHARD HOFSTADTER AND THE …
In each of Hofstadter’s first three books (Social Darwinism in American Thought, The American Political Tradition and The Age of Reform), he describes the reform era (1890 to the New Deal) …
Reading The American Political Tradition in the 21st Century
Abstract. Brilliantly written, powerfully argued, The American Political Tradition by Richard Hofstadter, published in 1948, is flawed for readers today because of serious gaps and …
INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN POLITICAL CULTURE - Bellevue …
Identify the core elements of APC and evaluate the effects on American political life. Describe and explain how the political culture shapes the political process and policy outcomes. …
Hofstadter on Populism: A Critique of 'The Age of Reform' - JSTOR
Hofstadter on Populism: A Critique of "The Age of Reform". By NORMAN POLLACK. R ICHARD HOFSTADTER ANNOUNCES AT THE BEGINNING OF. The Age of Reform that he will …
HOFSTADTER LIVES: POLITICAL CULTURE AND TEMPERAMENT IN
First, he pioneered in crafting a narrative history of American political culture, highlighting both the major conflicts and the shared assumptions and commitments that, with the great exception of …
Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860-1915. By Richard …
Professor Hofstadter has thus given us a careful and lucid analysis of the influence of Darwinism on social theory and has made a significant contri- bution to our understanding of the trends of …
“The Important and Unfamiliar”: Richard Hofstadter’s The …
view that the origins of this conservative trend in American history can be located within The American Political Tradition .
Richard Hofstadter Papers, 1944-1970 - Columbia University
Hofstadter wrote some of the most influential books to appear in American political and cultural history, among them The Age of Reform (1955) and Anti-Intellectualism in American Life …
the American political tradition. By Richard Hofstadter ... - JSTOR
Tradition and The Age of Reform. The American Political Tradition first appeared in 1948 and is a collection of twelve biographical portraits. Nine of these are of men prominent in politics; two …
The (New) American Political Tradition - Cambridge University …
In a dozen tightly connected essays, Hofstadter pro-filed the Americans—the presidents, protesters, and political hacks—who defined the nation’s distinctive political legacy. Shaped by …
The American Political Tradition
The American Political Tradition. And the Men Who Made It. By. Richard Hofstadter. CHAPTER V. ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE SELF-MADE MYTH. I HAPPEN, temporarily, to occupy …
A Keen Sense of History and the Need to Act: Reflections on Richard ...
The American Political Tradition is a set of essays on men and groups who played critical roles in American political life. As Hofstadter attested, it was conceived (at least partly) out of a …
Richard Hofstadter and American Historiography
The basis for this judgment was The American Political Tradition, a book Hofstadter published in 1948 at the beginning of his career.
Richard Hofstadter The American Political Tradition (2024)
Richard Hofstadter's "The American Political Tradition" is a seminal work in American political history, offering a critical analysis of key figures and events that have shaped the nation's …
“The Important and Unfamiliar”: Richard Hofstadter’s The American ...
This paper addresses the continued association of Richard Hofstadter with consensus history. More specifically, it challenges the view that the origins of this conservative trend in American …
Hofstadter The American Political Tradition (Download Only)
Richard Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition offers a crucial and enduring contribution to understanding the complexities of American political thought. While not without its critiques, its …
Reflections on Hofstadter’s The American Political Tradition
Hofstadter moved away from an economic reading of history to one that looked to social-psychological explanations for political behaviour and trends. Identifying status anxieties rather …
Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The …
American political tradition was, Hofstadter argued, blind to alternative political possibilities, whether threats of social vi-olence and domination or visions of a more just and humane …
RUNNING HEAD. Hofstadter’s American Tradition
Richard Hofstadter published his second book, The American political tradition and the men who made it (1948). On the surface, the work was an orthodox one, consisting as it did of twelve …
Richard Hofstadter: The Ironies of an American Historian
Hofstadter took advantage of both the social-science flavor and the tone of condescension these words imparted to his writings. He expatiated on the agrarian "myth," the "folklore" of self-help, …
A MEASURE OF DETACHMENT: RICHARD HOFSTADTER …
In each of Hofstadter’s first three books (Social Darwinism in American Thought, The American Political Tradition and The Age of Reform), he describes the reform era (1890 to the New Deal) …
Reading The American Political Tradition in the 21st Century
Abstract. Brilliantly written, powerfully argued, The American Political Tradition by Richard Hofstadter, published in 1948, is flawed for readers today because of serious gaps and …
INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN POLITICAL CULTURE - Bellevue College
Identify the core elements of APC and evaluate the effects on American political life. Describe and explain how the political culture shapes the political process and policy outcomes. …
Hofstadter on Populism: A Critique of 'The Age of Reform' - JSTOR
Hofstadter on Populism: A Critique of "The Age of Reform". By NORMAN POLLACK. R ICHARD HOFSTADTER ANNOUNCES AT THE BEGINNING OF. The Age of Reform that he will …
HOFSTADTER LIVES: POLITICAL CULTURE AND TEMPERAMENT IN …
First, he pioneered in crafting a narrative history of American political culture, highlighting both the major conflicts and the shared assumptions and commitments that, with the great exception of …
Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860-1915. By Richard …
Professor Hofstadter has thus given us a careful and lucid analysis of the influence of Darwinism on social theory and has made a significant contri- bution to our understanding of the trends of …
“The Important and Unfamiliar”: Richard Hofstadter’s The American ...
view that the origins of this conservative trend in American history can be located within The American Political Tradition .
