ARGONAUT BOOKS

Hofstadter's essays... are calm, clear, dispassionate and devastating - and a joy to readHarper'sHofstadter's status theory helps us understand a political history that goes far beyond the issues of the fifties and sixties which it was invoked to explainNew RepublicThe Paranoid Style in American Politics remains a singular and powerful part of Hofstadter's formidable intellectual legacy. If we are to grasp the toxic undercurrents that still run through [American] national politics today, it is an excellent place to start for lessons about a democratic world gone wrongSean Wilentz ...Read More