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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 538th most popular historian (down from 428th in 2019), the 12,195th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,485th in 2019) and the 47th most popular American Historian.

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  • 40.79

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Richard Hofstadter has had the most page views in the with 55,758 views, followed by Japanese (2,714), and Chinese (2,509). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (133.93%), Swahili (63.04%), and Czech (27.62%)

Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Richard Hofstadter ranks 538 out of 561. Before him are Elaine Pagels, John Komlos, Richard Bauckham, Mary Ritter Beard, Iain Pears, and Charles Oman. After him are Warren Treadgold, Gábor Kósa, Francis Parkman, Anthony Grafton, Oliver Grau, and Ellen Meiksins Wood.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Richard Hofstadter ranks 301. Before him are Bill Melendez, Hal Smith, Óscar Cristi, Lucille Bliss, Forrest J Ackerman, and Beverly Cleary. After him are William Alland, Tony Bettenhausen, Paul Emery, Mark Stevens, Nilufer Hanımsultan, and Ruth R. Benerito. Among people deceased in 1970, Richard Hofstadter ranks 254. Before him are Earl Eby, Chester Morris, Marjorie Rambeau, Charlie Ruggles, Preston Foster, and Earl Hooker. After him are Richard Cushing, Máirtín Ó Cadhain, Booker Ervin, William Daniels, William Beaudine, and Patricia Ellis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Hofstadter ranks 12,195 out of 20,380. Before him are Tatyana Ali (1979), Larry Parks (1914), Deborah Ann Woll (1985), Robert Stangland (1881), Phil LaMarr (1967), and Meagen Fay (1957). After him are Dorothy Ashby (1932), Mike James (1990), Ralph Lewis (1872), Martha Hudson (1939), Derek Jeter (1974), and Rosanne Cash (1955).

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Among HISTORIANS In United States

Among historians born in United States, Richard Hofstadter ranks 47. Before him are David Bordwell (1947), Richard G. Hovannisian (1932), Richard Taruskin (1945), James H. Billington (1929), Elaine Pagels (1943), and Mary Ritter Beard (1876). After him are Francis Parkman (1823), Anthony Grafton (1950), Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942), Bernard Bailyn (1922), Stephen Kotkin (1959), and Allan Lichtman (1947).

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