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Richard Hofstadter

Index Richard Hofstadter

Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916October 24, 1970) was an American historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century. [1]

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  1. 129 relations: Abraham Lincoln, Agrarianism, Alfred Kazin, Allan Nevins, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Civil War, American Philosophical Society, Andrew Jackson, Anglicanism, Anti-capitalism, Anti-communism, Anti-intellectualism, Anti-intellectualism in American Life, Antisemitism, Archive, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Bernard Bailyn, Buffalo, New York, Butler Library, C. Vann Woodward, C. Wright Mills, Charles A. Beard, Charles Darwin, Charles E. Rosenberg, Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Lasch, Columbia University, Commencement speech, Communist Party USA, Consensus history, Cosmopolitanism, Daniel J. Boorstin, David Herbert Donald, David M. Potter, David W. Noble, Dorothy Ross (historian), Edmund Wilson, Eric Foner, Eric McKitrick, F. Scott Fitzgerald, First Party System, Folklore, Fosdick-Masten Park High School, Frankfurt School, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Frederick Jackson Turner, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Will, German Americans, Grover Cleveland, ... Expand index (79 more) »

  2. Left-wing politics in the United States
  3. Populism scholars

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

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Agrarianism

Agrarianism is a social and political philosophy that promotes subsistence agriculture, family farming, widespread property ownership, and political decentralization.

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Alfred Kazin

Alfred Kazin (June 5, 1915 – June 5, 1998) was an American writer and literary critic.

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Allan Nevins

Joseph Allan Nevins (May 20, 1890 – March 5, 1971) was an American historian and journalist, known for his extensive work on the history of the Civil War and his biographies of such figures as Grover Cleveland, Hamilton Fish, Henry Ford, and John D. Rockefeller, as well as his public service. Richard Hofstadter and Allan Nevins are historians of the United States.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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American Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.

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Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.

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Anti-capitalism

Anti-capitalism is a political ideology and movement encompassing a variety of attitudes and ideas that oppose capitalism.

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Anti-communism

Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communist beliefs, groups, and individuals.

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Anti-intellectualism

Anti-intellectualism is hostility to and mistrust of intellect, intellectuals, and intellectualism, commonly expressed as deprecation of education and philosophy and the dismissal of art, literature, history, and science as impractical, politically motivated, and even contemptible human pursuits.

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Anti-intellectualism in American Life

Anti-intellectualism in American Life is a book by Richard Hofstadter published in 1963 that won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.

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Antisemitism

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against, Jews.

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Archive

An archive is an accumulation of historical records or materials – in any medium – or the physical facility in which they are located.

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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. (born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual. Richard Hofstadter and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. are American people of German-Jewish descent, historians of the United States and Pulitzer Prize for History winners.

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Bernard Bailyn

Bernard Bailyn (September 10, 1922 – August 7, 2020) was an American historian, author, and academic specializing in U.S. Colonial and Revolutionary-era History. Richard Hofstadter and Bernard Bailyn are academics of the University of Cambridge, Jewish American historians and Pulitzer Prize for History winners.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Erie County.

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Butler Library

Butler Library is located on the Morningside Heights campus of Columbia University at 535 West 114th Street, in Manhattan, New York City.

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C. Vann Woodward

Comer Vann Woodward (November 13, 1908 – December 17, 1999) was an American historian who focused primarily on the American South and race relations. Richard Hofstadter and C. Vann Woodward are Pulitzer Prize for History winners.

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C. Wright Mills

Charles Wright Mills (August 28, 1916 – March 20, 1962) was an American sociologist, and a professor of sociology at Columbia University from 1946 until his death in 1962.

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Charles A. Beard

Charles Austin Beard (November 27, 1874 – September 1, 1948) was an American historian and professor, who wrote primarily during the first half of the 20th century. Richard Hofstadter and Charles A. Beard are historians from New York (state) and historians of the United States.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology.

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Charles E. Rosenberg

Charles Ernest Rosenberg (born 1936) is an American historian of medicine.

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Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British and American author, journalist, and educator. Richard Hofstadter and Christopher Hitchens are American anti-capitalists and American anti-fascists.

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Christopher Lasch

Robert Christopher Lasch (June 1, 1932 – February 14, 1994) was an American historian, moralist and social critic who was a history professor at the University of Rochester. Richard Hofstadter and Christopher Lasch are populism scholars.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Commencement speech

A commencement speech or commencement address is a speech given to graduating students, generally at a university, although the term is also used for secondary education institutions and in similar institutions around the world.

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Communist Party USA

The Communist Party USA, officially the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), is a communist party in the United States which was established in 1919 after a split in the Socialist Party of America following the Russian Revolution.

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Consensus history

Consensus history is a term used to define a style of American historiography and classify a group of historians who emphasize the basic unity of American values and the American national character and downplay conflicts, especially conflicts along class lines, as superficial and lacking in complexity.

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Cosmopolitanism

Cosmopolitanism is the idea that all human beings are members of a single community.

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Daniel J. Boorstin

Daniel Joseph Boorstin (October 1, 1914 – February 28, 2004) was an American historian at the University of Chicago who wrote on many topics in American and world history. Richard Hofstadter and Daniel J. Boorstin are academics of the University of Cambridge, historians of the United States, Jewish American historians and Pulitzer Prize for History winners.

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David Herbert Donald

David Herbert Donald (October 1, 1920 – May 17, 2009) was an American historian, best known for his 1995 biography of Abraham Lincoln. Richard Hofstadter and David Herbert Donald are historians of the United States.

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David M. Potter

David Morris Potter (December 6, 1910 – February 18, 1971) was an American historian specializing in the study of the coming of the American Civil War, especially the political factors. Richard Hofstadter and David M. Potter are historians of the United States and Pulitzer Prize for History winners.

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David W. Noble

David Watson Noble (March 17, 1925 – March 11, 2018) was an American historian and historiographer, specializing in American intellectual trends and thought. Richard Hofstadter and David W. Noble are historians of the United States and historiographers.

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Dorothy Ross (historian)

Dorothy Ross (August 13, 1936 – May 22, 2024) was an American historian and Arthur O. Lovejoy Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University.

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Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson Jr. (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer, literary critic and journalist.

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Eric Foner

Eric Foner (born February 7, 1943) is an American historian. Richard Hofstadter and Eric Foner are academics of the University of Cambridge, Jewish American historians and Pulitzer Prize for History winners.

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Eric McKitrick

Eric Louis McKitrick (July 5, 1919 – April 24, 2002) was an American historian, best known for The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788–1800 (1993) with Stanley Elkins, which won the Bancroft Prize in 1994. Richard Hofstadter and Eric McKitrick are academics of the University of Cambridge.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.

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First Party System

The First Party System was the political party system in the United States between roughly 1792 and 1824.

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Folklore

Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture.

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Fosdick-Masten Park High School

Fosdick-Masten Park High School, now known as City Honors School, is a historic public high school building located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York.

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Frankfurt School

The Frankfurt School is a school of thought in sociology and critical philosophy.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. Richard Hofstadter and Franklin D. Roosevelt are American anti-fascists.

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Frederick Jackson Turner

Frederick Jackson Turner (November 14, 1861 – March 14, 1932) was an American historian during the early 20th century, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison until 1910, and then Harvard University. Richard Hofstadter and Frederick Jackson Turner are historians of the United States and Pulitzer Prize for History winners.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers.

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George Will

George Frederick Will (born May 4, 1941) is an American libertarian conservative writer and political commentator, who writes regular columns for The Washington Post and provides commentary for NewsNation.

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German Americans

German Americans (Deutschamerikaner) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry.

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Grover Cleveland

Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837June 24, 1908) was an American politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897.

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Harvey Swados

Harvey Swados (October 28, 1920 – December 11, 1972) was an American social critic and author of novels, short stories, essays and journalism.

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Herbert Gutman

Herbert George Gutman (1928–1985) was an American professor of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he wrote on slavery and labor history. Richard Hofstadter and Herbert Gutman are historians of the United States and Jewish American historians.

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Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933.

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Historical materialism

Historical materialism is Karl Marx's theory of history.

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Historical revisionism

In historiography, historical revisionism is the reinterpretation of a historical account.

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Historiography

Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension, the term historiography is any body of historical work on a particular subject.

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History of the United States

The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC.

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Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922January 27, 2010) was an American historian, playwright, philosopher, socialist intellectual and World War II veteran. Richard Hofstadter and Howard Zinn are American anti-capitalists, historians of the United States and Jewish American historians.

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Individualism

Individualism is the moral stance, political philosophy, ideology, and social outlook that emphasizes the intrinsic worth of the individual.

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Ira Katznelson

Ira I. Katznelson (born 1944) is an American political scientist and historian, noted for his research on the liberal state, inequality, social knowledge, and institutions, primarily focused on the United States. Richard Hofstadter and Ira Katznelson are Jewish American historians.

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John C. Calhoun

John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782March 31, 1850) was an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832.

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John William Ward (professor)

John William Ward (1922–1985), was the 14th President of Amherst College, a veteran of World War II, Professor of English and History at Princeton University, and Chairman of the Ward Commission.

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Joseph McCarthy

Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957.

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Julius W. Pratt

Julius William Pratt (1888–1983) was a United States historian who specialized in foreign relations and imperialism.

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Karl Mannheim

Karl Mannheim (born Károly Manheim, 27 March 1893 – 9 January 1947) was a Hungarian sociologist and a key figure in classical sociology as well as one of the founders of the sociology of knowledge.

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Karl Marx

Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German-born philosopher, political theorist, economist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist.

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Lawrence A. Cremin

Lawrence Arthur Cremin (October 31, 1925 – September 4, 1990) was an American educational historian and administrator. Richard Hofstadter and Lawrence A. Cremin are historians from New York (state), historians of the United States and Pulitzer Prize for History winners.

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Lawrence W. Levine

Lawrence William Levine (February 27, 1933 – October 23, 2006) was an American historian.

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Leukemia

Leukemia (also spelled leukaemia; pronounced) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and produce high numbers of abnormal blood cells.

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Linda K. Kerber

Linda Kaufman Kerber (born January 23, 1940, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American feminist, a political and intellectual historian, and educator who specializes in the history and development of the democratic mind in America, and the history of women in America.

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Lionel Trilling

Lionel Mordecai Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, short story writer, essayist, and teacher.

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List of postgraduate-only institutions

The following is a list of brick-and-mortar institutions that award only postgraduate or graduate qualifications.

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Lloyd Gardner

Lloyd C. Gardner (born 1934) is an American historian, a member of the "Wisconsin School" of diplomatic history along with Walter LaFeber and Thomas J. McCormick. Richard Hofstadter and Lloyd Gardner are historians of the United States.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Margaret Lefranc

Margaret Lefranc (nee Frankel; later Schoonover) (March 15, 1907September 5, 1998) was an American painter, illustrator and editor, an American Modernist with early training as a color expressionist.

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Max Weber

Maximilian Karl Emil Weber (21 April 186414 June 1920) was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist who was one of the central figures in the development of sociology and the social sciences more generally.

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McCarthyism

McCarthyism, also known as the Second Red Scare, was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s.

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Merle Curti

Merle Eugene Curti (September 15, 1897 – March 9, 1996) was an American progressive historian who influenced peace studies, intellectual history and social history, including by using cliometrics (quantitative tools in historical research). Richard Hofstadter and Merle Curti are historians of the United States and Pulitzer Prize for History winners.

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Mike Wallace (historian)

Mike Wallace (born July 22, 1942) is an American historian. Richard Hofstadter and Mike Wallace (historian) are historians from New York (state) and Pulitzer Prize for History winners.

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Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union with a secret protocol that partitioned between them or managed the sovereignty of the states in Central and Eastern Europe: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Romania.

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Moscow trials

The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet Union between 1936 and 1938 at the instigation of Joseph Stalin.

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Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan)

Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is one of the oldest and largest teaching hospitals in the United States.

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National Academy of Education

The National Academy of Education (NAEd) is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization in the United States that advances high-quality research to improve education policy and practice.

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Neoconservatism

Neoconservatism is a political movement that began in the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1960s during the Vietnam War among foreign policy hawks who became disenchanted with the increasingly pacifist Democratic Party and with the growing New Left and counterculture of the 1960s.

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One-Dimensional Man

One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society is a 1964 book by the German–American philosopher and critical theorist Herbert Marcuse, in which the author offers a wide-ranging critique of both the contemporary capitalist society of the Western Bloc and the communist society of the Soviet Union, documenting the parallel rise of new forms of social repression in both of these societies, and the decline of revolutionary potential in the West.

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Otis L. Graham

Otis Livingston Graham Jr. (1935–2017) was an American historian, with a special interest in political history, immigration, and public history. Richard Hofstadter and Otis L. Graham are historians of the United States.

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Paranoia

Paranoia is an instinct or thought process that is believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety, suspicion, or fear, often to the point of delusion and irrationality.

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Parochialism

Parochialism is the state of mind whereby one focuses on small sections of an issue rather than considering its wider context.

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Party discipline

Party discipline is a system of political norms, rules and subsequent respective consequences for deviance that are designed to ensure the relative cohesion of members of the respective party group.

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Paula S. Fass

Paula S. Fass (born May 22, 1947) is an American historian and the Margaret Byrne Professor of History (Emerita) at the University of California, Berkeley.

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People's Party (United States)

The People's Party, also known as the Populist Party or simply the Populists, was an agrarian populist political party in the United States in the late 19th century.

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Political culture of the United States

The political culture of the United States has been influenced by the various European nations which colonized the Americas from the 15th century onwards.

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Political history

Political history is the narrative and survey of political events, ideas, movements, organs of government, voters, parties and leaders.

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Progressive Era

The Progressive Era (1901–1929) was a period in the United States during the early 20th century of widespread social activism and political reform across the country.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prizes are two dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.

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Reinhold Niebuhr

Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (June 21, 1892 – June 1, 1971) was an American Reformed theologian, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years.

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Richard Heffner

Richard Douglas Heffner (August 5, 1925 – December 17, 2013) was the creator and host of The Open Mind, a public affairs television show first broadcast in 1956.

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Right to property

The right to property, or the right to own property (cf. ownership), is often classified as a human right for natural persons regarding their possessions.

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Robert C. Bannister

Robert Corwin Bannister Jr. (born June 4, 1935) is an American historian.

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Robert Dallek

Robert A. Dallek (born May 16, 1934) is an American historian specializing in the presidents of the United States, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon. Richard Hofstadter and Robert Dallek are Jewish American historians.

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Robert V. Remini

Robert Vincent Remini (July 17, 1921 – March 28, 2013) was an American historian and a professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Richard Hofstadter and Robert V. Remini are historians from New York (state) and historians of the United States.

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Seymour Martin Lipset

Seymour Martin Lipset (March 18, 1922 – December 31, 2006) was an American sociologist and political scientist. Richard Hofstadter and Seymour Martin Lipset are Jewish American historians.

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Show trial

A show trial is a public trial in which the guilt or innocence of the defendant has already been determined.

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Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it.

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Social Darwinism

Social Darwinism is the study and implementation of various pseudoscientific theories and societal practices that purport to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology, economics and politics.

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Social status

Social status is the relative level of social value a person is considered to possess.

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Stalinism

Stalinism is the totalitarian means of governing and Marxist–Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1927 to 1953 by dictator Joseph Stalin.

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Stanley Elkins

Stanley Maurice Elkins (April 27, 1925 in Boston, Massachusetts – September 16, 2013 in Leeds, Massachusetts) was an American historian, best known for his unique and controversial comparison of slavery in the United States to Nazi concentration camps, and for his collaborations (in a book and numerous articles) with Eric McKitrick regarding the early American Republic. Richard Hofstadter and Stanley Elkins are Jewish American historians.

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Subconscious

In psychology, the subconscious is the part of the mind that is not currently of focal awareness.

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Susan Baker

Susan Baker (born 9 October 1955) is a Professor Emerita in the School of Social Sciences and former co-director of the Sustainable Places Research Institute at Cardiff University.

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Susan Jacoby

Susan Jacoby (born June 4, 1945) is an American author.

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Terence E. Carroll

Terence E. Carroll earned his B.A. in history from Wayne State University and an M.A. in history from Columbia University.

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The Age of Reform

The Age of Reform is a 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Richard Hofstadter.

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The American Political Tradition

The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It is a 1948 book by Richard Hofstadter, an account of the ideology of previous Presidents of the United States and other political figures.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Paranoid Style in American Politics

"The Paranoid Style in American Politics" is an essay by American historian Richard Hofstadter, first published in Harper's Magazine in November 1964.

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Theodor W. Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno (born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; 11 September 1903 – 6 August 1969) was a German philosopher, musicologist, and social theorist.

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Theodore H. White

Theodore Harold White (May 6, 1915 – May 15, 1986) was an American political journalist and historian, known for his reporting from China during World War II and the Making of the President series. Richard Hofstadter and Theodore H. White are Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction winners.

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Thesis

A thesis (theses), or dissertation (abbreviated diss.), is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings.

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Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, planter, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.

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University at Buffalo

The State University of New York at Buffalo, commonly called the University at Buffalo (UB) and sometimes called SUNY Buffalo, is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York, United States.

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University of Maryland, College Park

The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland.

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Vernon Louis Parrington

Vernon Louis Parrington (August 3, 1871 – June 16, 1929) was an American literary historian, scholar, and college football coach. Richard Hofstadter and Vernon Louis Parrington are historians of the United States and Pulitzer Prize for History winners.

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William Jennings Bryan

William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July 26, 1925) was an American lawyer, orator, and politician.

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Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856February 3, 1924) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921.

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Xenophobia

Xenophobia (from ξένος (xénos), "strange, foreign, or alien", and (phóbos), "fear") is the fear or dislike of anything which is perceived as being foreign or strange.

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Yeoman

Yeoman is a noun originally referring either to one who owns and cultivates land or to the middle ranks of servants in an English royal or noble household.

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Young Communist League

The Young Communist League (YCL) is the name used by the youth wing of various Communist parties around the world.

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1968 Columbia University protests

In 1968, a series of protests at Columbia University in New York City were one among the various student demonstrations that occurred around the globe in that year.

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See also

Left-wing politics in the United States

Populism scholars

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hofstadter

Also known as Hofstadter, Richard, Richard Hofstader, Richard J Hofstadter, Richard J. Hofstadter.

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