The Age of Reform 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.

The American Political Tradition is one of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time.

This 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 ...

At the heart of poetic tradition is a figure of abandonment, a woman forsaken and out of control.

Although he cannot share the faith of the Progressive historians in the sufficiency of American liberalism as a guide to the modern world, Richard Hofstadter believes we have much to learn about ourselves from a reconsideration of their ...

Demonstrates how the colonies developed into the first nation created under the influences of nationalism, modern capitalism and Protestantism.

This volume traces the historical processes in thought by which American political leaders slowly edged away from their complete philosophical rejection of a party and hesitantly began to embrace a party system.

"As Mr. Hofstadter unfolds the fascinating story, it is no crude battle of eggheads and fatheads.

Originally published: New York: Knopf, 1948.

Demonstrates how the colonies developed into the first nation created under the influences of nationalism, modern capitalism and Protestantism.