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The Age of Reform
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 14.95This book is a landmark in American political thought. It examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 -- with startling and stimulating results. it searches out the moral and emotional motives of the reformers the myths and dreams in which they believed, and the realities with which they had to compromise.... more...
The American Political Tradition
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 17.00A revised edition of the clasic study of American politics from the Founding Fathers to FDR. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
America at 1750
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 12.95Demonstrates how the colonies developed into the first nation created under the influences of nationalism, modern capitalism and Protestantism. From the Paperback edition. more...
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 18.00Anti-Intellectualism in American Life was awarded the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction. It 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. more...
Great Issues in American History, Vol. II
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 14.95Spans the history of America from its discovery to the present, providing a generous sampling of documents. more...
Great Issues in American History, Vol. III
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 14.95The third volume in Great Issues In American History, From Reconstruction to the Present Day is now updated and revised to include another decade of American history. Beatrice K. Hofstadter, wife of the late Richard Hofstadter and herself an historian who worked with him closely on the original edition, has added a new section covering 1970 to 1981... more...
Progressive Historians
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 16.00Richard Hofstadter, the distinguished historian and twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, brilliantly assesses the ideas and contributions of the three major American interpretive historians of the twentieth century: Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles A. Beard and V.L. Parrington. These men, whose views of history were shaped in large part by the political... more...
American Violence
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 16.00With eyewitness accounts and contemporary reports?linked together by succinct analytical commentaries?Richard Hofstadter and his young collaborator, Michael Wallace, have created a superb documentary reader that is, in effect, a history of violence in America through four centuries. Here, as experienced by men and women who lived through... more...
The Paranoid Style in American Politics
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 16.95This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs.In The Paranoid Style in American Politics , acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how fringe groups... more...
Great Issues in American History, Vol. I
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 18.00This first volume of Great Issues in American History -- three volumes of documents that cover the history of America from its settlement to the present -- gives us a generous sampling from the major political controversies in the Colonial period. Included are such documents as Richard Hakluyt's "Discourse of Western Planting" (1584), "Letter from... more...
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