This is a revised edition of Hofstadter's classic study of American politics from the founding fathers to FDR.  As an intellectual history of the assumptions behind American politics, this work changed the way in which the relationship between power and ideas in the national experience is understood. Foreword by Christopher Lasch.
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
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. View titles by Richard Hofstadter

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This is a revised edition of Hofstadter's classic study of American politics from the founding fathers to FDR.  As an intellectual history of the assumptions behind American politics, this work changed the way in which the relationship between power and ideas in the national experience is understood. Foreword by Christopher Lasch.

Table of Contents

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

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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. View titles by Richard Hofstadter