The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it by Hofstadter, Richard - 1973

Random, 1973. Soft cover. Good. From the book, ""First published in 1948, 'The American Political Tradition' has become one of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. The author himself called it ""a young man's book,"" but its elegance, passion, and iconoclastic erudition laid the groundwork for a totally new understanding of the American past. By writing a ""kind of intellectual history of the assumptions behind American politics,"" Richard Hofstadter changed the way Americans understand the relationship between power and ideas in their national experience. Like only a handful of American historians before him--Frederick Jackson Turner and Charles A. Beard are examples--Hofstadter was able to articulate, in a single work, a historical vision that inspired and shaped an entire generation."" Soft cover in good condition. Text block clean and tight. Book has very minimal underlining and light age toning at edges.