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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... high school's curricular problems , it seems important here to stress the positive value of this achievement , and to note that , in its democratic features , if not in its educational standards , the American high school has been to ...
... high school's curricular problems , it seems important here to stress the positive value of this achievement , and to note that , in its democratic features , if not in its educational standards , the American high school has been to ...
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Richard Hofstadter. " only an insignificant percentage " of high - school graduates went on to colleges or scientific schools . The main function of high schools , said the committee , was " to prepare for the duties of life , " not for ...
Richard Hofstadter. " only an insignificant percentage " of high - school graduates went on to colleges or scientific schools . The main function of high schools , said the committee , was " to prepare for the duties of life , " not for ...
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... secondary- school energies of the country to gear the educational system more closely to the needs of children who were held to be in some sense uneducable.2 1 John F. Latimer , in What's Happened to Our High Schools ?, has made a ...
... secondary- school energies of the country to gear the educational system more closely to the needs of children who were held to be in some sense uneducable.2 1 John F. Latimer , in What's Happened to Our High Schools ?, has made a ...
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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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