Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Volume 713Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1963 - 434 pages In this award-winning classic work of consensus history, Richard Hofstadter, author of The Age of Reform, examines the role of social movements in the perception of intellect in American life. Professor Hofstadter sets the standard for the dissection of many facets of U.S. history. Here he tells the tale of the intertwining factors of American culture and politics that lead to prevalent anti-intellectualism. Although published in 1963, this remains the definitive work on the distrust of elites and experts and is sadly relevant to the present day. Thanks to Columbia University's Richard Hofstadter we have at last a fresh, forceful, fluent look from "the nether end" at various aspects of anti-intellectualism in America, past and present, and although it is self-styled a fragmentary rather than a formal study, the work is far-ranging, artfully approached and filled with a spirited, sensibility, without pedantry or polemic. It presents both the historical and socio-psychological aspects of its theme, pinpointing the middle-and-low-brow responses via our go-getter economy, the common man's traditional resentment and suspicion of the life of the mind, and the cyclical ambivalence which seems always to have greeted the scholar or expert when venturing into a democratic culture. For although the Founding Fathers, were a worldly elite, starting with Jefferson, too-much-book-larnin' soon became a political black mark. |
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... become industrialized and enjoy a high standard of living , that the pursuit of happiness is everybody's business ? The very colonial countries that belligerently reject our leadership try to follow our example , and the Russians ...
... become industrialized and enjoy a high standard of living , that the pursuit of happiness is everybody's business ? The very colonial countries that belligerently reject our leadership try to follow our example , and the Russians ...
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... become taller and more brawny , and get bigger hands and feet , and a heavier weight of brain , " and would very likely become " thinner , sharp - featured , lank and dry , just as all disappointed , over - instigated natures always are ...
... become taller and more brawny , and get bigger hands and feet , and a heavier weight of brain , " and would very likely become " thinner , sharp - featured , lank and dry , just as all disappointed , over - instigated natures always are ...
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... become educational administrators or leave the field entirely . In recent decades a new area has opened up which may drain able men , and women as well , out of the public secondary school : the emergence of large numbers of heavily ...
... become educational administrators or leave the field entirely . In recent decades a new area has opened up which may drain able men , and women as well , out of the public secondary school : the emergence of large numbers of heavily ...
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