In order to better understand the Trumpist movement and modern politics in general, I've been reading studies about earlier waves of American rightism. One good book I've read is The Paranoid Style in American Politics:https://www.amazon.com/Paranoid-Style-American-Politics/dp/0307388441 …
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I also like Hofstadter because he was writing in another era, so he's likely to be compromised less by modern politics and more by his own era's politics.
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This is why I'm reading a lot of what was written by older historians, and less by newer ones.
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In a similar vein, I think John Higham is a great moralist, but a flawed historian.
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I'm sure all historians are flawed. I'll read more contemporary accounts of the things Higham writes about, but I wanted to start with a historian whose attitudes are less shaped by the same influences that shaped my own.
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