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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... politics . Why , while most of the Founding Fathers were still alive , did a reputation for intellect become a political disad- vantage ? In time , of course , the rule of the patrician elite was supplanted by a popular democracy , but ...
... politics . Why , while most of the Founding Fathers were still alive , did a reputation for intellect become a political disad- vantage ? In time , of course , the rule of the patrician elite was supplanted by a popular democracy , but ...
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... political , but politics had become less social . A survi- vor of the Civil War - like George Bancroft , or John Hay - tried to keep footing , but without brilliant success . They were free to do or say what they liked , but no one took ...
... political , but politics had become less social . A survi- vor of the Civil War - like George Bancroft , or John Hay - tried to keep footing , but without brilliant success . They were free to do or say what they liked , but no one took ...
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... political career , La Follette gave the lie to George Washington Plunkitt's assertion that a college background was of no use in practical politics , when he rallied his former classmates for his first campaigns and made them the ...
... political career , La Follette gave the lie to George Washington Plunkitt's assertion that a college background was of no use in practical politics , when he rallied his former classmates for his first campaigns and made them the ...
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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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