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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... revival its climactic technique . From the closing years of the eighteenth century , and well on into the nineteenth , suc- cessive waves of revivals swept over one or another part of the country . A first wave , running roughly from ...
... revival its climactic technique . From the closing years of the eighteenth century , and well on into the nineteenth , suc- cessive waves of revivals swept over one or another part of the country . A first wave , running roughly from ...
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... revivals as the con- sequence of divine visitations . Edwards had referred to the Northamp- ton revival , in the title of his first great work , as a " surprising work of God " ; and it was the adjective here that suggested the ...
... revivals as the con- sequence of divine visitations . Edwards had referred to the Northamp- ton revival , in the title of his first great work , as a " surprising work of God " ; and it was the adjective here that suggested the ...
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... revivals . The most intelligent sympathizers of revivals had always found the extreme manifestations of enthusiasm an embarrassment . Finney , though he regularly induced them , thought of them as necessary encumbrances and evils ...
... revivals . The most intelligent sympathizers of revivals had always found the extreme manifestations of enthusiasm an embarrassment . Finney , though he regularly induced them , thought of them as necessary encumbrances and evils ...
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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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