biography
| name: |
Hofstadter, Richard
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pronunciation:
[hofstater]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1916–70)
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| biography:
| Historian, born in Buffalo, New York, USA. An interdisciplinary pioneer and major seminal influence in American intellectual and political history, he received his doctorate from Columbia University (1942) and taught there (1946–70), training a generation of graduate students. His doctoral thesis, Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860–1915 (1944), won the Beveridge Award from the American Historical Society. The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It (1948) sold over one million paperback copies, and The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R. (1955) and Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963) both won Pulitzer Prizes. The last of his 13 books, The Idea of a Party System (1969), explored the slow acceptance of party politics in America. |
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