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The New York Times. Retrieved December 15, 2014. Richard Hofstadter, one of the leading historians of American affairs, died yesterday of leukemia at Mount Sinai Hospital at the age of 54. He was DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University and twice a Pulitzer Prize-winner.
Douglas Richard Hofstadter (Nueva York, 15 de febrero de 1945) es un científico, filósofo y académico [1] estadounidense de la ciencia cognitiva, la física y la literatura comparada cuya investigación incluye conceptos como el sentido del yo en relación con el mundo externo, la conciencia, la metacognición, [2] la inteligencia ...
Hofstadter analyzes the recurrent phenomenon of paranoid rhetoric and conspiracy theories in American political history and culture. He traces the origins and variations of the paranoid style from the anti-Masonic movement to the contemporary right wing, and examines its psychological and historical implications.
Subjects Of Study: United States. Richard Hofstadter (born Aug. 6, 1916, Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.—died Oct. 24, 1970, New York City) was a U.S. historian whose popular books on the political, social, and intellectual trends in U.S. history garnered two Pulitzer Prizes.
Learn about Richard Hofstadter, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and a core member of the postwar Columbia intellectuals. Explore his influential books on American political and cultural history, his role as a mentor and defender of free inquiry, and his oral history interview.
Richard Hofstadter (1916-70) was America’s most distinguished historian of the twentieth century. The author of several groundbreaking books, including The American Political Tradition, he was a vigorous champion of the liberal politics that emerged from the New Deal.
Sean Wilentz, editor of a Library of America series on historian Richard Hofstadter, discusses his relevance for today's politics. He highlights Hofstadter's books on anti-intellectualism and the paranoid style in American life and their connection to Trump and social media.
