It has been our fate as a nation not to have ideologies but to be one.
Richard Hofstadter Quotes
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
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| Birth: | 6th August, 1916 |
| Death: | 24th October, 1970 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Historian |
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Richard Hofstadter was an American historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century. Hofstadter, the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University, became the "iconic historian of postwar liberal consensus", largely due to his emphasis on ideas and political culture rather than the day-to-day doings of politicians. His influence is ongoing, as modern critics profess admiration for the grace of his writing, and the depth of his insight.
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