Anti-Intellectualism in American LifeKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1963 - 464 pages Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society. "As Mr. Hofstadter unfolds the fascinating story, it is no crude battle of eggheads and fatheads. It is a rich, complex, shifting picture of the life of the mind in a society dominated by the ideal of practical success." —Robert Peel in the Christian Science Monitor |
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... civil service , without which they believed no other reform could be successfully carried out . The ideal of civil - service reform brought into direct opposition the credo of the professional politicians , who put their faith in party ...
... civil service , without which they believed no other reform could be successfully carried out . The ideal of civil - service reform brought into direct opposition the credo of the professional politicians , who put their faith in party ...
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... civil service succeeded in creating in the public mind a conception of civil - service reform which had very little to do with reality but which appealed formidably to egalitarian sentiments , machine cupidity , and anti ...
... civil service succeeded in creating in the public mind a conception of civil - service reform which had very little to do with reality but which appealed formidably to egalitarian sentiments , machine cupidity , and anti ...
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... civil servant haunted the professionals to the very end . Even after President Garfield's assassi- nation , when public sentiment for civil - service reform rapidly mounted , his successor , Chester A. Arthur , professed to Congress his ...
... civil servant haunted the professionals to the very end . Even after President Garfield's assassi- nation , when public sentiment for civil - service reform rapidly mounted , his successor , Chester A. Arthur , professed to Congress his ...
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Antiintellectualism in Our Time | 3 |
On the Unpopularity of Intellect | 24 |
THE RELIGION OF THE HEART | 53 |
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