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The American political tradition and the men who made it
Title
The American political tradition and the men who made it / by Richard Hofstadter.
ISBN
0394700090
9780394700090
Edition
1st ed.
Published
New York : A.A. Knopf, 1948.
Physical Description
xi, 378, xviii pages ; 22 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN Gray Social Thought 2713: Ms. notes of Bradford H. Gray. Presentation inscription to Alfred and Carol from Dick [Richard Hofstadter], undated. From the library of Bradford H. Gray.
Summary
Forward by Christopher Lasch.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Series
AAK fellowship history
Borzoi book
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-378) and index.
Contents
The founding fathers, an age of realism
Thomas Jefferson, the aristocrat as democrat
Andrew Jackson and the rise of liberal capitalism
John C. Calhoun, the Marx of the master class
Abraham Lincoln and the self-made myth
Wendell Phillips, the patrician as agitator
The spoilsmen, an age of cynicism
William Jennings Bryan, the democrat as revivalist
Theodore Roosevelt, the conservative as progressive
Woodrow Wilson, the conservative as liberal
Herbert Hoover and the crisis of American individualism
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the patrician as opportunist.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Annotations (Provenance) - 20th century.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Also listed under
Bradford H. Gray Collection in the History of Social Thought (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
United States New York (State) New York.
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