Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916 – October 24, 1970) was an American historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century. Hofstadter was the DeWitt...
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Douglas Richard Hofstadter (born February 15, 1945) is an American cognitive and computer scientist whose research includes concepts such as the sense...
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Paranoid Style in American Politics" is an essay by American historian Richard Hofstadter, first published in Harper's Magazine in November 1964. It was the...
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Bach Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970), American historian Robert Hofstadter (1915–1990), American Nobel Prize-winner in physics Samuel H. Hofstadter (1894–1970)...
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Consensus history (section Richard Hofstadter)
spreads backward over the American past. Peter Novick identified Richard Hofstadter and Louis Hartz as leading "liberal consensus historians" and Daniel...
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Life is a book by Richard Hofstadter published in 1963 that won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. In this book, Hofstadter set out to trace...
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Leonard Leakey Hofstadter, Ph.D., is a fictional character portrayed by Johnny Galecki and one of the main protagonists in the CBS sitcom, The Big Bang...
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1948 book by Richard Hofstadter, an account of the ideology of previous Presidents of the United States and other political figures. Hofstadter wrote the...
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1950s and launched in 1961 under the co-editorship of historians Richard Hofstadter and C. Vann Woodward, the series has been edited by David M. Kennedy...
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The Age of Reform is a 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Richard Hofstadter. It is an American history, which traces events from the Populist Movement...
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American historian Richard Hofstadter wrote an analysis in his influential 1964 essay The Paranoid Style in American Politics. Hofstadter sought to identify...
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conflict and stagnation, as outlined in his Farewell Address. Historian Richard Hofstadter wrote that the Founders "did not believe in parties as such, scorned...
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undesirable characteristics of the self to the conspirators. Historian Richard Hofstadter stated that: This enemy seems on many counts a projection of the self;...
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relations. The first Hofstadter sequences were described by Douglas Richard Hofstadter in his book Gödel, Escher, Bach. In order of their presentation in...
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any practical applications it may have. [Intellectuals] have, as Richard Hofstadter has pointed out, an attitude to ideas that is at once playful and...
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purges (1936–38) of Russian society. From 1934 to 1939, the historian Richard Hofstadter briefly was a member of the Young Communist League USA. Despite disillusionment...
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intolerance of the nativists of the KKK and denounced the era. Historian Richard Hofstadter, for example, wrote in 1955 that prohibition "was a pseudo-reform...
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illustrative example is that of Peter Williamson (1730–1799). As historian Richard Hofstadter pointed out, "Although efforts were made to regulate or check their...
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to Industrialism, 1885–1914 (1957), Hofstadter, Richard, The Age of Reform (1954), Pulitzer Prize Jensen, Richard. "Democracy, Republicanism and Efficiency:...
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was dropped by most American historians. The consensus historian Richard Hofstadter concluded in 1968, "Today Beard's reputation stands like an imposing...
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he earned his PhD in history at Columbia University in 1966 (under Richard Hofstadter and William Leuchtenburg)[citation needed] with a doctoral dissertation...
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White House, p. 247; Correspondence of Andrew Jackson, Vol. V, p. 72. Richard Hofstadter, "The Tariff Issue on the Eve of the Civil War." American Historical...
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who may be the most popular U.S. backstairs author of all time." Richard Hofstadter in The Paranoid Style in American Politics called it a "masterful...
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read by the general public, including Allan Nevins, Daniel Boorstin, Richard Hofstadter and C. Vann Woodward. Perhaps the most prominent of all was Arthur...
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poor against the overbearing rich. In the 1950s, scholars such as Richard Hofstadter portrayed the Populist movement as an irrational response of backward-looking...
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recorded, such as that of Peter Williamson (1730–1799). Historian Richard Hofstadter pointed out that "Although efforts were made to regulate or check...
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consensus" school, typified by David Potter, Daniel Boorstin, and Richard Hofstadter followed Hartz in emphasizing that political conflicts in American...
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today was virtually invented by Richard Hofstadter. Eric Foner, in an introduction to a then-new edition of Hofstadter's book published in the early 1990s...
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(2005). Alexander Hamilton. Penguin. p. 569. ISBN 978-0143034759. Richard Hofstadter (1969). The Idea of a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition...
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drunkenness. Richard Hofstadter discussed the fallacy before Fischer, although not by name. In reviewing histories from the Progressive Era, Hofstadter noted...
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