Question: Who was the author of Anti-intellectualism in American life, who argued that American tradition were based on it colonial European and Evangelical Protestant heritage?

The Caleb Foundation, created in 1998, is one of the leading creationist pressure groups in Northern Ireland.  It also lobbies on a range of social policy issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage from an evangelical Protestant perspective, and has been particularly influential with Democratic Unionist Party ministers in the Northern Ireland Executive.  The Foundation describes its mission as "promoting the fundamentals of the historic evangelical Protestant faith". <SEP>  In this book, Hofstadter set out to trace the social movements that altered the role of intellect in American society.  In so doing, he explored questions regarding the purpose of education and whether the democratization of education altered that purpose and reshaped its form.  In considering the historic tension between access to education and excellence in education, Hofstadter argued that both anti-intellectualism and utilitarianism were consequences, in part, of the democratization of knowledge. Anti-intellectualism in American Life is a book by Richard Hofstadter published in 1963 that won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.  Moreover, he saw these themes as historically embedded in America's national fabric, an outcome of its colonial European and evangelical Protestant heritage.  Anti-intellectualism and utilitarianism were functions of American cultural heritage, not necessarily of democracy. <SEP> A tradition is a belief or behavior passed down within a group or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past.  Common examples include holidays or impractical but socially meaningful clothes (like lawyers' wigs or military officers' spurs), but the idea has also been applied to social norms such as greetings.  While it is commonly assumed that traditions have ancient history, many traditions have been invented on purpose, whether that be political or cultural, over short periods of time.  Traditions can persist and evolve for thousands of years—the word "tradition" itself derives from the Latin "tradere" literally meaning to transmit, to hand over, to give for safekeeping.  Various academic disciplines also use the word in a variety of ways. <SEP> The Evangelical Christian Church (Christian Disciples) as an evangelical Protestant Canadian church body in North America (2004) can be traced to the formal organization of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in 1804, in Bourbon County, Kentucky under the leadership of Barton Warren Stone (1772–1844).  The Stone Movement later merged with the efforts of Thomas Campbell (1772–1854) and his son Alexander Campbell (1788–1866) to become the Restoration Movement that gave birth to the Churches of Christ (Non-Instrumental), the Christian churches and churches of Christ, the Churches of Christ (non-institutional), and the Disciples of Christ.  The Evangelical Christian Church (Christian Disciples) as a separate group within the Restoration tradition was reorganized in 2001.  The Evangelical Christian Church's national office in Canada is in Waterloo, Ontario.