Hofstadter

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• 3/18/18
  

  The Crassness and Anti-Intellectualism of President Donald Trump

  by Walter G. Moss

  It’s an old story in American history—and it’s getting worse.

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• 11-5-17
  

  A Golden Age for American History Scholarship? It Was the Mid-1950s.

  by Vaughn Davis Bornet

  Just consider the names of historians writing then: C. Vann Woodward, Kenneth Stampp, John Hope Franklin, Thomas Bailey, Daniel Boorstin, Edmund Morgan, Robert V. Bruce, Richard Hofstadter, Edward C. Kirkland, and many more.

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• 2-21-16
  

  Richard Hofstadter’s Brilliant Essay Misled Us About the Paranoid Style of American Politics

  by Rob Brotherton

  Turns out, it’s not a phenomenon of the fringe.

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• 11-15-15
  

  How Hofstadter and Schlesinger Misled Us About FDR: An Interview with Eric Rauchway

  by Eric Rauchway

  They claimed his views on monetary policy evolved. A close study of the record shows he always wanted to use the dollar to undermine fascism.