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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... movement , which more than any other has aimed at making the proletariat into a new bourgeoisie . In the United States , as elsewhere , the labor movement was in a very real sense the creation of intellectuals . But it was a child that ...
... movement , which more than any other has aimed at making the proletariat into a new bourgeoisie . In the United States , as elsewhere , the labor movement was in a very real sense the creation of intellectuals . But it was a child that ...
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... movement with next to nothing to show in the way of solid permanent organization did it develop any effectiveness , and this only when it was taken over by pragmatic leaders of the order of Samuel Gompers and Adolph Strasser , who ...
... movement with next to nothing to show in the way of solid permanent organization did it develop any effectiveness , and this only when it was taken over by pragmatic leaders of the order of Samuel Gompers and Adolph Strasser , who ...
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... movement was to experiment with human life . ” 2 Intellectuals were estranged from labor leaders like Gompers be- cause their expectations from the labor movement were altogether dif- ferent . The intellectuals tended to look upon the ...
... movement was to experiment with human life . ” 2 Intellectuals were estranged from labor leaders like Gompers be- cause their expectations from the labor movement were altogether dif- ferent . The intellectuals tended to look upon the ...
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