Anti-intellectualism in American life ; The paranoid style in American politics ; Uncollected essays 1956-1965 / Richard Hofstadter ; Sean Wilentz, editor.

Author: Hofstadter, Richard, 1916-1970, author.

ImprintNew York, N.Y. : The Library of America, [2020]

Imprint2020

Description1047 pages ; 21 cm.

Note:Anti-intellectualism in American life -- The paranoid style in American politics and other essays -- Selected essays 1956-1965 -- History and the social sciences -- American higher education -- The political philosophy of the framers of the Constitution -- The economic and social philosophy of Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Could a Protestant have beaten Hoover in 1928? -- Darwinism and western thought -- The revolution in higher education -- Some comments on Senator Goldwater -- A long view: Goldwater in history -- Goldwater & his party: the true believer and the radical right -- The Goldwater débâcle -- Alexis de Tocqueville -- Unpublished essays -- The origins of the welfare state -- The American right wing and the paranoid style -- from "The Great Depression and American history: a personal footnote".

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:"The undercurrents of the populist mind, presciently analyzed by an indispensable American historian."-- Provided by publisher.

Note:Recommended in Resources for College Libraries

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