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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... look out , will usher in the reign of mediocrity , of the feeblest and flattest and the most pretentious that has ever been . The masculine character , the ability to dare and endure , to know and yet not fear reality , to look the ...
... look out , will usher in the reign of mediocrity , of the feeblest and flattest and the most pretentious that has ever been . The masculine character , the ability to dare and endure , to know and yet not fear reality , to look the ...
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... look primarily for brilliance , " said one president , who must have been speaking of the past history of an idiosyncratic firm . " Now that much - abused word ' character ' has become very important . We don't care if you're a Phi Beta ...
... look primarily for brilliance , " said one president , who must have been speaking of the past history of an idiosyncratic firm . " Now that much - abused word ' character ' has become very important . We don't care if you're a Phi Beta ...
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... looks not for intellect , considered as a freely speculative and critical function , but for expertise , for something ... look at the world from an angle of vision that is close to power and who assume as given those compromises which ...
... looks not for intellect , considered as a freely speculative and critical function , but for expertise , for something ... look at the world from an angle of vision that is close to power and who assume as given those compromises which ...
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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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