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Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956-1965 (LOA #330) (Library of America)

door Richard Hofstadter

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"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"--page [2] of jacket. "Anti-intellectualism in American life is at once a sweeping history of hostile attitudes toward ideas in the United States and, by Hofstadter's own account, a deeply personal work of analysis, prompted by the 'atmosphere of fervent malice and humorless imbecility' stirred up by McCarthyism. Dissecting the political and social uses of ignorance by demagogues, crusaders, self-help gurus, and even reformers assured of their own good intentions, Anti-intellectualism uncovers a persistent, multifaceted feature of our national culture. It remains an essential resource for our time, fulfilling, in the words of Susan Jacoby, 'the dream of every historian to produce a work that endures and provides the foundation for insights that may lie decades or centuries in the future'"--page [2] of jacket. "'American political life,' Hofstadter writers at the beginning of The paranoid style, a book so powerful its title has entered the lexicon of modern political disorders, 'has served again and again as an arena for uncommonly angry minds.' Examining the rhetoric and mindset of figures outside the political mainstream who tapped into the fears and conspiratorial thinking of large constituencies, the book reveals how unruly political movements--from Freemasonry to Populism to the John Birch Society and the rise of Barry Goldwater--have played an outsized role in our nation's history"--page [2] of jacket. "Intellectually omnivorous and an engaging and elegant stylist, Hofstadter wrote widely while working on these two books in the 1950s and 1960s. Included here are his most trenchant uncollected writings from the period: discussions of the Constitution's framers, the personality and legacy of FDR, higher education and its discontents, the rise and fall of the antitrust movement, and the genius of Alexis de Tocqueville, among other subjects. Several essays reveal the profound shock of Goldwater's nomination as the Republican nominee for president in 1964, which in Hofstadter's view brought closer the troubling prospect that 'the rational pursuit of our well-being and safety would become impossible'"--page [2-3] of jacket.… (meer)
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You can't imagine how revealing it is to read these works in this era. What we think of new isn't new at all. The roots of what we complain of today - whatever our political leanings - began long ago. Richard Hofstadter is cited by conservatives for liberalism but really, what we read here transcends. He writes as an historian interested in the life of the mind, whether it be how people view the learning of other adults (remember Mitt Romney being criticized for speaking French?) and in the way we view education and the shaping of young minds. He is liberal only in the sense that he values lifelong learning and seems mystified when others do not.

We studied Hofstadter in college but I had forgotten the wealth of information here. The in-line references are a joy.

FYI, the book starts out a bit slow and contains a bunch of references contemporary to the time it was written. Put reservations aside and just keep reading. Soon you will be enthralled. ( )
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"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"--page [2] of jacket. "Anti-intellectualism in American life is at once a sweeping history of hostile attitudes toward ideas in the United States and, by Hofstadter's own account, a deeply personal work of analysis, prompted by the 'atmosphere of fervent malice and humorless imbecility' stirred up by McCarthyism. Dissecting the political and social uses of ignorance by demagogues, crusaders, self-help gurus, and even reformers assured of their own good intentions, Anti-intellectualism uncovers a persistent, multifaceted feature of our national culture. It remains an essential resource for our time, fulfilling, in the words of Susan Jacoby, 'the dream of every historian to produce a work that endures and provides the foundation for insights that may lie decades or centuries in the future'"--page [2] of jacket. "'American political life,' Hofstadter writers at the beginning of The paranoid style, a book so powerful its title has entered the lexicon of modern political disorders, 'has served again and again as an arena for uncommonly angry minds.' Examining the rhetoric and mindset of figures outside the political mainstream who tapped into the fears and conspiratorial thinking of large constituencies, the book reveals how unruly political movements--from Freemasonry to Populism to the John Birch Society and the rise of Barry Goldwater--have played an outsized role in our nation's history"--page [2] of jacket. "Intellectually omnivorous and an engaging and elegant stylist, Hofstadter wrote widely while working on these two books in the 1950s and 1960s. Included here are his most trenchant uncollected writings from the period: discussions of the Constitution's framers, the personality and legacy of FDR, higher education and its discontents, the rise and fall of the antitrust movement, and the genius of Alexis de Tocqueville, among other subjects. Several essays reveal the profound shock of Goldwater's nomination as the Republican nominee for president in 1964, which in Hofstadter's view brought closer the troubling prospect that 'the rational pursuit of our well-being and safety would become impossible'"--page [2-3] of jacket.

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