Ebook {Epub PDF} The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It by Richard Hofstadter

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The American Political Tradition And the Men Who Made it by Richard Hofstadter ISBN ISBN Unknown; New York, New York, U.s.a.: Vintage, Ap; ISBN The American Political Tradition is one of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. First published in , its elegance, passion, and iconoclastic erudition laid the groundwork for a totally new understanding of the American past. By writing a kind of intellectual history of the assumptions behind American politics, Richard Hofstadter changed the way Americans. The American political tradition and the men who made it Item Preview The American political tradition and the men who made it by Hofstadter, Richard, Publication date and the rise of liberal capitalism -- John C. Calhoun, the Marx of the master class -- Abraham Lincoln and the self-made myth -- Wendell Phillips, the.

The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It is a chronological compilation of political profiles ranging from the Founders through FDR. Hofstadter examines the larger concepts and contributions that these men offered while describing their political relevance to American institutions. This is a study of the American "core values" by the famous consensus historian Richard Hofstadter. His argument, that the American political tradition emphasizes capitalist order and stability but not democracy as some believes, has become one of the most contentious topics among historians. Born in , Richard Hofstadter was one of the leading American historians and public intellectuals of the twentieth century. His works include The Age of Reform, Anti-intellectualism in American Life, Social Darwinism in American Thought, , The American Political Tradition, and others. He died in