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Richard Hofstadter

1916 - 1970

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Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916 – October 24, 1970) was an American historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century. Hofstadter was the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. Rejecting his earlier historical materialist approach to history, in the 1950s he came closer to the concept of "consensus history", and was epitomized by some of his admirers as the "iconic historian of postwar liberal consensus." Others see in his work an early critique of the one-dimensional society, as Hofstadter was equally critical of socialist and capitalist models of society, and bemoaned the "consensus" within the society as "bounded by the horizons of property and entrepreneurship", criticizing the "hegemonic liberal capitalist culture running throughout the course of American history".His most widely read works are Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860–1915 (1944); The American Political Tradition (1948); The Age of Reform (1955); Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1963); and the essays collected in The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Hofstadter has received more than 563,174 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Hofstadter is the 428th most popular historian, the 9,506th most popular biography from United States and the 37th most popular American Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Richard Hofstadter ranks 428 out of 339Before him are Romila Thapar, Jacob Theodor Klein, Vasily Struve, Lawrence Stone, Richard Overy, and Robert Kagan. After him are Anvar Chingizoglu, Mary Beard, Iain Pears, Mark Mazower, Avi Shlaim, and Elaine Pagels.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Richard Hofstadter ranks 258Before him are Gaylord Nelson, Frank Parker, Ruy de Freitas, Peter Geach, Richard K. Guy, and Don Keefer. After him are Betty Taylor, Spark Matsunaga, Virginia Gregg, Giuseppe Tosi, Roderick Chisholm, and I. J. Good. Among people deceased in 1970, Richard Hofstadter ranks 224Before him are Conrad Nagel, Matthias Heidemann, Giancarlo Cornaggia-Medici, Edward Everett Horton, William Hopper, and Anita Louise. After him are Okuro Oikawa, Marjorie Rambeau, Booker Ervin, John T. Scopes, Earl Hooker, and William Daniels.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Hofstadter ranks 9,506 out of 18,182Before him are Marc Blucas (1972), Torrey DeVitto (1984), Moira Kelly (1968), Eddie Harris (1934), Sean Paul Lockhart (1986), and James Dickey (1923). After him are Candice King (1987), Dusty Anderson (1918), Nicholas Brendon (1971), Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896), Kevin Nealon (1953), and Mike Mignola (1960).

Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Richard Hofstadter ranks 37Before him are Alfred W. Crosby (1931), Christopher Browning (1944), Carroll Quigley (1910), Robert Jay Lifton (1926), Timothy D. Snyder (1969), and Stephen F. Cohen (1938). After him are Elaine Pagels (1943), Mary Ritter Beard (1876), James H. Billington (1929), Richard G. Hovannisian (1932), Francis Parkman (1823), and Allan Lichtman (1947).