[lbo-talk] Why Richard Hofstadter Is Still Worth Reading

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Oct 10 13:03:37 PDT 2006


Which elites, exactly? The Fortune 500, or ball-bearing manufacturers in Wisconsin?

Doug

On Oct 10, 2006, at 3:32 PM, Chip Berlet wrote:


> Hi,
>
> Matt and I adopt Rogin's position in our book (with cites).
>
> See also this resource:
> http://www.publiceye.org/tooclose/populism.html
>
> Chip Berlet
>
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> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org on behalf of Jesse Lemisch
> Sent: Tue 10/10/2006 3:32 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Why Richard Hofstadter Is Still Worth
> Reading butNotfor the Reasons the Critics Have in Mind
>
>
>
> Has anyone on this thread cited Michael Rogin's McCarthy and the
> Intellectuals, a rigorous study by an unfortunately prematurely dead
> Berkeley political scientist. This takes apart Hofstadter et al and
> shows
> that McCarthyism commenced in elites rather than from the grass
> roots. And
> James Weinstein and a collaborator had a classic article on how slow
> McCarthy was to pick up anti-Communism, becoming alerted to the
> issue in
> part by Norman Thomas.
>
> Jesse Lemisch
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