DAVID S. BROWN is an associate professor of history at Elizabethtown College and author of "Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography," published last month. THERE IS a certain mystique to Richard ...

Richard Hofstadter and scholarly fashion. David Brown’s biography of Hofstadter describes him as an exemplar of “twentieth-century liberalism,” but in fact there was very little about Richard ...

Richard Hofstadter wrote several of the 20th century's most popular and important works of American history, but, as historian Brown reminds readers in this nuanced study, those works were as much a ...

For most of the 24 years Richard Hofstadter was a professor in the Columbia University history department — from 1946 until his death from leukemia in 1970, at age 54 — he and his family lived in an ...

Richard Hofstadter (BA ’37) was born 100 years ago this past August, and died 46 years ago. His most successful books were published in the middle of the last century. For your typical historian, that ...

Richard Hofstadter, the Buffalo-born historian, died in 1970, but his works remain just as timely in our time. “Today we are not only aware of our own violence; we are frightened by it,” he wrote that ...

There has not been much to smile about during the coronavirus pandemic, but one of the small pleasures of the lockdown, for some of us, has been a social-media account called Bookcase Credibility.

In 1964, the year after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, historian Richard Hofstadter published what is probably his most enduring essay, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics.” Hofstadter ...

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