Richard Hofstadter

The American Political Tradition (eBook, ePUB)

And the Men Who Made it

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The American Political Tradition is one of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. First published in 1948, its elegance, passion, and iconoclastic erudition laid the groundwork for a totally new understanding of the American past. By writing a "kind of intellectual history of the assumptions behind American politics," Richard Hofstadter changed the way Americans understand the relationship between power and ideas in their national experience. Like only a handful of American historians before him-Frederick Jackson Turner and Charles A. Beard are examples-Hofstadter was able to articulate, in a single work, a historical vision that inspired and shaped an entire generation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307809667
• Artikelnr.: 44687821

Autorenporträt

Born in 1916, Richard Hofstadter was one of the leading American historians and public intellectuals of the twentieth century. His works include The Age of Reform, Anti-intellectualism in American Life, Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860-1915, The American Political Tradition, and others. He died in 1970.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Founding Fathers: An Age of Realism
2. Thomas Jefferson: The Aristocrat as Democrat
3. Andrew Jackson and the Rise of Liberal Capitalism
4. John C. Calhoun: The Marx of the Master Class
5. Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
6. Wendell Philiips: The Patrician as Agitator
7. The Spoilsmen: An Age of Cynicism
8. William Jennings Bryan: The Democrat as Revivalist
9. Theodore Roosevelt: The Conservative as Progressive
10. Woodrow Wilson: The Conservative as Liberal
11. Herbert Hoover and the Crisis of American Individualism
12. Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Patrician as Opportunist