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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... teachers are recruited " from the top of the lower half of the popu- lation . " Upper and upper - middle class persons almost universally re- ject teaching as a vocation . Teachers frequently resort , during the school year or their ...
... teachers are recruited " from the top of the lower half of the popu- lation . " Upper and upper - middle class persons almost universally re- ject teaching as a vocation . Teachers frequently resort , during the school year or their ...
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... teachers for this attempt to educate everybody . The search for cheap teachers was perennial . Schoolteachers were considered to be public officers , and it was part of the American egalitarian philosophy that the salaries of public ...
... teachers for this attempt to educate everybody . The search for cheap teachers was perennial . Schoolteachers were considered to be public officers , and it was part of the American egalitarian philosophy that the salaries of public ...
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... teaching talents . In its pursuit of an adequate supply of well - trained teachers , the na- tion is caught in a kind of academic treadmill . The more adequate the rewards become in the upper echelons of education — in the colleges ...
... teaching talents . In its pursuit of an adequate supply of well - trained teachers , the na- tion is caught in a kind of academic treadmill . The more adequate the rewards become in the upper echelons of education — in the colleges ...
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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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