Hofstadter, Richard

US historian

wrote histories "Social Darwinism in American Thought" 1944, "The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It" 1948, "The Age of Reform" 1955 (Pulitzer Prize for history 1956), "Anti-Intellectualism in American Life" 1963 (Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction 1964), "The Structure of American History" 1964, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" 1965, "The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington" 1968, "The Idea of a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States, 1780-1840" 1969, "America at 1750: A Social Portrait" 1971, "People and a Nation" 1971