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Author Hofstadter, Richard, 1916-1970.

Title The American political tradition : and the men who made it / by Richard Hofstadter.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Vintage Books, 1958, c1948.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Misse  973 H677a 1958    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st ed.
Description xi, 381, [i]-xviii p. ; 19 cm.
Note "A Vintage book K9"--Cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 354-381) and index.
Contents The founding fathers : an age of realism -- Thomas Jefferson : the aristocrat as Democrat -- Andrew Jackson and the rise of liberal capitalism -- John C. Calhoun : the Marx of the master class -- Abraham Lincoln and the self-made myth -- Wendell Phillips : the patrician as agitator -- The spoilsmen : an age of cynicism -- William Jennings Bryan : the Democrat as revivalist -- Theodore Roosevelt : the conservative as progressive -- Woodrow Wilson : the conservative as liberal -- Herbert Hoover and the crisis of American individualism -- Franklin D. Roosevelt : the patrician as opportunist.
Subject United States -- Politics and government.
United States -- Biography.

 
    
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