The Library of America is reissuing a collection of Hofstadter’s classic essays, including his Anti-Intellectualism and Paranoid Style, in their usually gorgeous format. Edited by no one less than Sean Wilentz.pic.twitter.com/53jtln5Xzt
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Well, he was like 30 when he was writing that stuff, 32 when book was published. He was an NYC intellectual with many of their flaws—vastly erudite, but obviously not an expert on *everything*, so glibness will creep in with these quicksilver allusions/syntheses.
I think that's entirely fair. Nearly all of his books were shot through with both interpretive insight & shoot-from-the-hip polemic (like his fellow NY intellectuals), something that made him a compelling writer but also excited next generation to offer many revisions of his work
While Michael might not like this, I think this actually is what links his work to Zinn's even as they followed very different political trajectories--both left a string of compelling theses that needed to be either disputed or confirmed
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