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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... kind but are of the same order as almost any working politician of prominence may experience ; even some of our greatest statesmen - among them Jefferson , Lincoln , and Franklin D. Roosevelt - were not immune . As Emerson once asked ...
... kind but are of the same order as almost any working politician of prominence may experience ; even some of our greatest statesmen - among them Jefferson , Lincoln , and Franklin D. Roosevelt - were not immune . As Emerson once asked ...
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... kind . Parents and children are one dead level of ignorance . Others are supplied a few months in the year with the most antiquated & unreasonable forms of teaching reading , writing & cyphering . Master Ignoramus is a striking ...
... kind . Parents and children are one dead level of ignorance . Others are supplied a few months in the year with the most antiquated & unreasonable forms of teaching reading , writing & cyphering . Master Ignoramus is a striking ...
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... kind of force and a new punitive capacity . The political climate of the post - war era has given the fundamentalist type powerful new allies among other one - hundred percenters : rich men , some of them still loyal to a fundamentalist ...
... kind of force and a new punitive capacity . The political climate of the post - war era has given the fundamentalist type powerful new allies among other one - hundred percenters : rich men , some of them still loyal to a fundamentalist ...
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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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