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What happened to culture?
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David Brooks
International Herald Tribune
06-17-2005
It was not a great moment for cultural optimism. I was emptying some boxes in my basement the other day and I came across an essay somebody had clipped on Ernest Hemingway from the July 14, 1961, issue of Time magazine. The essay was outstanding. Over three pages of tightly packed prose, with just a few photos, the anonymous writer performed the sort of high-toned but accessible literary analysis that would be much harder to find in a mass market magazine today. The Hemingway hero, Time's essayist wrote, adheres to a personal code. ...
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Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography
Magazine article from: Afro - Americans in New York Life and History
; David S. Brown, Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography...Selma to march to Montgomery. Richard Hofstadter was among them. Weeks earlier...the road. At that point, Richard Hofstadter stood and pleaded with the...
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An historian's tale: Richard Hofstadter and the rise and fall of American liberalism.(Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Washington Monthly
; Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography By David...obstacles to produce a biography of Richard Hofstadter, the historian and author (The...humane, and illuminating. In Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography, Brown...
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Making history.(Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography)(Book review)
Magazine article from: National Review
; Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography, by David S. Brown (Chicago, 320...Thought, 1860-1915, to his death from leukemia at age 54 in 1970, Richard Hofstadter was one of America's foremost public intellectuals. Even today...
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SPIRIT OF THE AGE HISTORIAN RICHARD HOFSTADTER'S ENDURING APPEAL
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; RICHARD HOFSTADTER'S "The American Political Tradition...from leukemia in 1970-has called Hofstadter's "The Age of Reform" (1955...answers David S. Brown, author of "Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography" (Chicago...
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The education of Richard Hofstadter.
Magazine article from: The Nation
; ...answers they found. The career of Richard Hofstadter, the finest historian of his...provides an opportunity to consider Hofstadter's own intellectual trajectory...Great Depression and cold war. Richard Hofstadter was born in 1916 in Buffalo...
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Richard Hofstadter's tradition: fifty years ago, amid trying personal circumstances, an audacious young historian wrote a book of lasting merit about American presidents and their politics.
Magazine article from: The Atlantic
; ...survive maybe a generation. But Richard Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition...longevity. Begun in 1943, when Hofstadter was just twenty-seven years...subject. After graduating, Hofstadter taught briefly at the University...
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Books: Richard Hofstadter's Tradition An assessment at the half-century mark.
Magazine article from: The Atlantic
; ...survive maybe a generation. But Richard Hofstadter's The American Political Tradition...longevity. Begun in 1943, when Hofstadter was just twenty-seven years...subject. After graduating, Hofstadter taught briefly at the University...
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Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography. By David S. Brown. (Chicago, Ill...David S. Brown has undertaken the task of "finding the man"--Richard Hofstadter--and placing him within multiple contexts of American literary...
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Periods of ... PARANOIA: Although published 40 years ago, Richard Hofstadter's book on madness in American politics can still teach an important lesson
Newspaper article from: Sunday Gazette-Mail
; ...Columbia University historian Richard Hofstadter ever since my 11th-grade history...published in 1965, five years before Hofstadter died, was an eerie experience...stretch out indefinitely." Hofstadter bemoaned the "difficulty many...
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Richard Hofstadter BOOKS & IDEAS iht.com/culture
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; International Herald Tribune 08-05-2006 Richard Hofstadter An Intellectual Biography. By David S. Brown...University of Chicago Press.*At his death in 1970, Richard Hofstadter was probably the United States's most renowned...
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