Richard Hofstadter (6 August 1916 – 24 October 1970) was an American public intellectual of the 1950s, a historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. In the course of his career, Hofstadter became the "iconic historian of postwar liberal consensus" whom 21st-century scholars continue to consult because his intellectually engaging books and essays remain pertinent to illuminating contemporary history.
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Richard Hofstadter (6 August 1916 – 24 October 1970) was an American public intellectual of the 1950s, a historian and DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. In the course of his career, Hofstadter became the "iconic historian of postwar liberal consensus" whom 21st-century scholars continue to consult because his intellectually engaging books and essays remain pertinent to illuminating contemporary history.
His most important works are Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860–1915 (1944); The American Political Tradition (1948); The Age of Reform (1955); Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1963), and the essays collected in The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964). He was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize: in 1956 for The Age of Reform, an unsentimental analysis of the populism movement in the 1890s and the progressive movement of the early 20th century; and in 1964 for the cultural history Anti-intellectualism in American Life.
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