Richard Hofstadter, American historian and author (born 1916)

Richard Hofstadter

American historian and public intellectual (1916–1970)

Richard Hofstadter was an American historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century. Hofstadter was the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University. Rejecting his earlier historical materialist approach to history, in the 1950s he came closer to…