Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography.(Book review)

The Historian | September 22, 2007| | Copyright

Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography. By David S. Brown. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. xxiii, 291. $27.50.)

During the 1937 filming of the unfinished I, Claudius, lead actor Charles Laughton muttered "I can't find the man" as he stalked around the set. He realized that there exists a vital, perhaps indispensable, connection between art, personal biography, and history. David S. Brown has undertaken the task of "finding the man"--Richard Hofstadter--and placing him within multiple contexts of American literary history, American ...

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