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Hofstadter
[ hof-stat-er, -stah-ter ]
noun
- Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.
- Robert, 1915–90, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1961.
Hofstadter
/ hŏf′stăt′ər /
- American physicist who determined the inner structure of protons and neutrons (1948) and in 1961 shared with German physicist Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer the 1961 Nobel Prize for physics.
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In the 1950s, you had people like Richard Hofstadter and Arthur Schlesinger moving back and forth between the two worlds.
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Whether or not we live in a more paranoid era than the one Hofstadter was writing about is, however, open to question.
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It turned out that the paranoid style described by Hofstadter was equally a property of the left and right.
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In 1962, historian Richard Hofstadter famously dubbed it “anti-intellectualism in American life.”
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Half a century ago, the great American historian Richard Hofstadter wrote about “the paranoid style in American politics.”
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