Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-279) and index.
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Introduction: Interior, exterior. -- pt. I. Education, 1916-1950. Radical roots ; The twilight of waspdom ; The new American political tradition ; The historian as social scientist. -- pt. II. Engagement, 1950-1965. The Age of reform and its critics ; The crisis of intellect ; The paranoid mind. -- pt. III. Eclipse, 1965-1970. Rebellion from within ; Conflict and consensus -- redux ; The trials of liberalism ; A world full. -- Bibliographic essay: In search of Richard Hofstadter. -- Sources: Archives, interviews, and correspondence. -- Students of Richard Hofstadter.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"In this biography, Davis S. Brown explores Hofstadter's life in the context of American liberalism's dramatic rise and sudden fall. A resourceful advocate of academic freedom, racial justice, and political pluralism, Hofstadter charted the changing nature of American society from a provincial Protestant foundation to one based on the values of an urban and multiethnic nation. According to Brown, Hofstadter presciently saw in rural America's hostility to this cosmopolitanism signs of an anti-intellectualism that he believed were dangerously endemic in a mass democracy."--Jacket.