Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970)
Autor von Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
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DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University from 1959 until the time of his death, Richard Hofstadter was one of the most influential historians in post--World War II America. His political, social, and intellectual histories raised serious questions about assumptions that had long mehr anzeigen been taken for granted and cast the American experience in an interesting new light. His 1948 work, The American Political Tradition, is an enduring classic study in political history. His 1955 work, The Age of Reform, which still commands respect among both historians and general readers, won him that year's Pulitzer Prize. A measure of Hofstadter's standing in literary and scholarly circles is the honors he received in 1964 for Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963)---Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize of Phi Beta Kappa, and the Sidney Hillman Prize Award. Hofstadter's greatest talent, however, may have been his ability to order complex events and issues and to synthesize from them a rational, constructively critical perspective on American history. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Great Issues in American History, Volume II: From the Revolution to the Civil War, 1765-1865 (1958) 269 Exemplare
Great Issues in American History, Volume III: From Reconstruction to the Present Day, 1864-1981 (1982) 171 Exemplare
The Idea of a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States, 1780-1840 (1969) 162 Exemplare
Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays… (2020) 132 Exemplare
Great Issues in American History, Volume I: From Settlement to Revolution, 1584–1776 (1969) 131 Exemplare
Great Issues in American History, Volume III: From Reconstruction to the Present Day, 1864-1969 (1969) 31 Exemplare
Parrington and the Jeffersonian tradition 2 Exemplare
Società e intellettuali in America 2 Exemplare
The Pseudo-conservative revolt 1 Exemplar
A Long View: Goldwater in History 1 Exemplar
The Revolution in Higher Education 1 Exemplar
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An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Mitwirkender — 133 Exemplare
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- Hofstadter, Richard
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- 1916-08-06
- Todestag
- 1970-10-24
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- Buffalo, New York, USA
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- New York, New York, USA
- Todesursache
- leukemia
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- Buffalo, New York, USA (birth)
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- University of Buffalo (BA ∙ History ∙ 1937)
Columbia University (MA ∙ History ∙ 1938)
Columbia University (Ph.D ∙ History ∙ 1942)
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- Pulitzer Prize (History | 1956)
Pulitzer Prize (1964) - Kurzbiographie
- The historian Richard Hofstadter was a core member of the group of postwar Columbia intellectuals that included Lionel Trilling, Jacques Barzun, Robert Merton, and Daniel Bell. At a time when politics were assumed essentially to reflect economic interests, Hofstadter began studying alternative explanations for political conduct: unconscious motives, status anxieties, irrational hatreds, paranoia. 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 (1963), both recognized with Pulitzer Prizes, and the celebrated The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1965). His American Political Tradition (1948), an enduring classic, remains today a standard work in both college and high-school history classes and has been read by millions outside the academy.
After earning his MA and PhD from Columbia, Hofstadter joined the faculty in 1946. He was named the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History in 1959 and remained at the University until his untimely death from leukemia in 1970. Many of Hofstadter's graduate students have gone on to important scholarship and teaching. One of them, Eric Foner, the current DeWitt Clinton Professor, says, “He played brilliantly the role of intellectual mentor so critical to any student's graduate career. For all his accomplishments, he was utterly without pretension, always unintimidating, never too busy to talk about one's work.” In 1968, following the campus disruptions that spring, Hofstadter delivered the commencement address, in which he defended Columbia as “a center of free inquiry and criticism—a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else."
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