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Hofstadter

[ hof-stat-er, -stah-ter ]

noun

  1. Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.
  2. Robert, 1915–90, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1961.


Hofstadter

/ hŏfstătər /

  1. American physicist who determined the inner structure of protons and neutrons (1948) and in 1961 shared with German physicist Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer the 1961 Nobel Prize for physics.


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Hofstadter’s mention of some abolitionists “who regarded the United States as being in the grip of a slaveholders’ conspiracy” rings true.

In the 1950s, you had people like Richard Hofstadter and Arthur Schlesinger moving back and forth between the two worlds.

Whether or not we live in a more paranoid era than the one Hofstadter was writing about is, however, open to question.

It turned out that the paranoid style described by Hofstadter was equally a property of the left and right.

In 1962, historian Richard Hofstadter famously dubbed it “anti-intellectualism in American life.”

Half a century ago, the great American historian Richard Hofstadter wrote about “the paranoid style in American politics.”

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