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America at 1750 by Richard Hofstadter5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Hofstadter's greatest talent, however, may have been his ability to order complex events and issues and to synthesize from them a rational, constructively critical perspective on American history. ![]() The Age of Reform (1955), and America at 1750: A Social Portrait (1971). A measure of Hofstadter's standing in literary and scholarly circles is the honors he received in 1964 for Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963)-Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize of Phi Beta Kappa, and the Sidney Hillman Prize Award. Pop Matters About the Author Richard Hofstadter (1916-1970) was the author of. America at 1750 a social portrait by Hofstadter, Richard, 1916-1970. ![]() ![]() His 1955 work, The Age of Reform, which still commands respect among both historians and general readers, won him that year's Pulitzer Prize. His 1948 work, The American Political Tradition, is an enduring classic study in political history. His political, social, and intellectual histories raised serious questions about assumptions that had long been taken for granted and cast the American experience in an interesting new light. : America at 1750: A Social Portrait (9780394717951) by Hofstadter, Richard and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University from 1959 until the time of his death, Richard Hofstadter was one of the most influential historians in post-World War II America. ![]()
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