[lbo-talk] Hofstadter

[mike larkin]

When I was in college, late 80s, early 90s, my lefty professors were pretty condescending towards Hofstadter as a consensus historian and proto-neocon. But I remember liking his psychological angle (I also liked Christopher Lasch.) Besides, I never got the extreme hostility to the "consensus" approach. There are obviously things that hold most Americans together.

Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:  Seth Ackerman wrote:


>In any case, I gather there are relatively few historians under 60 
>who have strong opinions about Hofstadter since political history 
>almost doesn't exist anymore, so he's just not in their sub-field.

What do you mean by that? Isn't political history pretty important?

Doug
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