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Anti-intellectualism in American life : The paranoid style in American politics : Uncollected essays, 1956-1965 /

Here for the first time in a single authoritative annotated edition are two masterworks by one of America's greatest historians, Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970). In the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anti-intellectualism in American life (1963) and in The paranoid style in American politics (1965), Hofs...

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Main Author: Hofstadter, Richard, 1916-1970 (Author)
Other Authors: Wilentz, Sean (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Library of America, [2020]
Series:Library of America ; v. 330.
Subjects:
McCarthy, Joseph, > 1908-1957.
Politics and culture > United States.
Intellectual freedom.
Intellectual life.
Intellectuals > United States.
United States > Social life and customs.
United States > History.
United States > Social conditions.
United States > Politics and government.
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Summary:Here for the first time in a single authoritative annotated edition are two masterworks by one of America's greatest historians, Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970). In the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anti-intellectualism in American life (1963) and in The paranoid style in American politics (1965), Hofstadter offered groundbreaking and still urgent analyses of deep undercurrents in American life, a stubborn, irrepressible opposition to rationality, expertise and higher learning, and the destabilizing pull exercised by conspiratorial movements on the right and left.
Physical Description:1047 pages ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781598536591
1598536591