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 re- form , with the passage of the Pendleton Act in 1883. This deserves special attention , for civil - service reform , the class issue of the gentle- man , was a touchstone of American political culture . 2 The central ...
... civil - service re- form , with the passage of the Pendleton Act in 1883. This deserves special attention , for civil - service reform , the class issue of the gentle- man , was a touchstone of American political culture . 2 The central ...
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... civil and military services “ has given a marvellous stimulus to education . " Formerly , upper - class boys who intended to go into public service had had no inducement to exert themselves be- cause they were certain to get an ...
... civil and military services “ has given a marvellous stimulus to education . " Formerly , upper - class boys who intended to go into public service had had no inducement to exert themselves be- cause they were certain to get an ...
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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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Antiintellectualism in Our Time | 3 |
On the Unpopularity of Intellect | 24 |
THE RELIGION OF THE HEART | 53 |
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