Hofstadter, Richard

Hofstadter, Richard

▪ American historian
born Aug. 6, 1916, Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.
died Oct. 24, 1970, New York City

      U.S. historian whose popular books on the political, social, and intellectual trends in U.S. history garnered two Pulitzer Prizes.

      He studied at the University of Buffalo (B.A., 1937) and Columbia University (M.A., 1938; Ph.D., 1942). From 1942 to 1946 he taught at the University of Maryland and then returned to teach at Columbia (1946–70), remaining there for the rest of his career.

      His works, several of which were best sellers, used much sociological thought in his interpretations of American history. His books include The American Political Tradition (1948), The Age of Reform (1955; 1956 Pulitzer Prize), The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1965), The Idea of a Party System (1969), and American Violence (1970). His Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963), which won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize, presented his controversial thesis that the egalitarian, populist sentiments of Jacksonian democracy, themes that have echoed recurrently through U.S. political history, produced in many Americans a deep-seated prejudice against intellectuals, who are perceived as representatives of an alien elite.

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