Pratt.ĭespite opposition from both families, he married Felice Swados (whose brother was Harvey Swados) in 1936 after he and Felice spent several summers at Hunter Colony, New York, run by Margaret Lefranc, their close friend for years they had one child, Dan. Hofstadter then studied philosophy and history at the University at Buffalo, from 1933, under the diplomatic historian Julius W. He attended the Fosdick-Masten Park High School in Buffalo. Hofstadter, and a German-American Lutheran mother, Katherine (née Hill), who died when Richard was ten.

Hofstadter was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1916 to a Jewish father, Emil A. He was an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize, first in 1956 for The Age of Reform, an analysis of the populism movement in the 1890s and the progressive movement of the early 20th century and then in 1964 for the cultural history Anti-intellectualism in American Life. His most widely read works are Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1860–1915 (1944) The American Political Tradition (1948) The Age of Reform (1955) Anti-intellectualism in American Life (1963), and the essays collected in The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964). Rejecting his earlier historical materialist approach to history, in the 1950s he came closer to the concept of ' consensus history', and was epitomized by some of his admirers as the 'iconic historian of postwar liberal consensus.' Others see in his work an early critique of the one-dimensional society, as Hofstadter was equally critical of socialist and capitalist models of society, and bemoaned the 'consensus' within the society as 'bounded by the horizons of property and entrepreneurship', criticizing the 'hegemonic liberal capitalist culture running throughout the course of American history'. Hofstadter was the DeWitt Clinton Professor of American History at Columbia University.

Richard Hofstadter (August 6, 1916 – October 24, 1970) was an American historian and public intellectual of the mid-20th century.

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