Can someone who subs to the electronic edition of the NYRB send this offlist? http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=9931 Volume 20, Number 3 · March 8, 1973 Feature On Richard Hofstadter By Christopher Lasch
Even though his career was cut short in its prime, leaving us immeasurably impoverished by his loss, Richard Hofstadter left a full and rounded body of work, not merely one or two important books, the best that most historians can hope for. Each of Hofstadter's books bore an important relation to its predecessors and to those that were to come; none, accordingly, can be seen in isolation from the others. Hofstadter's imagination never rested for long, and his thought ranged widely, embracing political, social, and cultural history--he was impatient with such distinctions--and extending to all periods of American history. ...
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