Richard Hofstadter

Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916 - October 24, 1970) was a noted American historian and was the Dewitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. His better-known works include The Age of Reform (1955) and Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1963), both of which won the Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction, as well as Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860-1915 (1944), The American Political Tradition (1948), and The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1965).

Published works

• Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860-1915 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania press, 1944).
• The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1948).
• The Age of Reform: from Bryan to F.D.R (New York: Knopf, 1955).
• The Development of Academic Freedom in the United States (New York: Columbia University Press, 1955). (with Walter P. Metzger)
• The United States: the History of a Republic (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,: Prentice-Hall, 1957).
• Anti-intellectualism in American life (New York: Knopf, 1963).
• The Progressive Movement, 1900-1915 (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1963).
• The Paranoid Style in American Politics, and Other Essays (New York: Knopf, 1965).
• The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington (New York: Knopf, 1968).
• The Idea of a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States, 1780-1840 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969).
• America in 1750: A Social Portrait (1971)