In an introduction to one of his books, this author identifies a need for a work that "emphasizes the common climate of American opinion," rather than the political or class conflict focused on by men like Charles Beard.
In an introduction to one of his books, this author identifies a need for a work that "emphasizes the common climate of American opinion," rather than the political or class conflict focused on by men like Charles Beard. Chapters of that work include "Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth" and "John C. Calhoun: Marx of the Master Class." In another work, this man claimed he could see "some of the cranky pseudo-conservatism of our time" in the nativist and anti-Semitic trends of the Populist movement. He wrote an essay for Harper's Magazine which gives "emulation of the enemy" and a focus on renegades like ex-nuns as aspects of the title concept. That essay was inspired by the Barry Goldwater campaign, and traces the "sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy" deeply rooted in the American mind. For 10 points, name this historian, the author of "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" and Anti-Intellectualism in American Life.
In an introduction to one of his books, this author identifies a need for a work that "emphasizes the common climate of American opinion," rather than the political or class conflict focused on by men like Charles Beard.
Richard Hofstadter