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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I look forward to reading your review but think you're giving him way too much credit/blame for influencing events. But his influence on historians continued. See my essay on that in Reviews in American History, June 1999.
There is also this excellent biography. https://www.amazon.com/Richard-Hofstadter-Intellectual-David-Brown/dp/0226076415 …
But was he a centrist? I have always read him as a leftist.
He was a leftist when young but increasingly conservative from late 1940s onwards.
Eighty years from now some graduate student will write a PhD dissertation on Jeet's curious antipathy toward Hofstadter.
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