Hofstadter's landmark work in American political thought examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940. It searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers, the myths and dreams in which they believed, and the realities with which they had to compromise.
"Professor Hofstadter has written a superb book...The Age of Reform entitles Hofstadter to rank with C. Vann Woodward as a master of creative synthesis, as an interpreter of the past who can add to cold data an emphatic insight that transforms history from a book of the dead into a chronicle of life."--American Political Science Review
WINNER
| 1956 Pulitzer Prize
Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970) was one of the leading American historians and intellectuals of the twentieth century. Throughout his career, he worked at many universities, most recently as the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. His works include the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Age of Reform and Anti-intellectualism in American Life.
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Hofstadter's landmark work in American political thought examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940. It searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers, the myths and dreams in which they believed, and the realities with which they had to compromise.
"Professor Hofstadter has written a superb book...The Age of Reform entitles Hofstadter to rank with C. Vann Woodward as a master of creative synthesis, as an interpreter of the past who can add to cold data an emphatic insight that transforms history from a book of the dead into a chronicle of life."--American Political Science Review
Awards
WINNER
| 1956 Pulitzer Prize
Author
Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970) was one of the leading American historians and intellectuals of the twentieth century. Throughout his career, he worked at many universities, most recently as the DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. His works include the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Age of Reform and Anti-intellectualism in American Life.
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