[lbo-talk] Why Richard Hofstadter Is Still Worth Reading but Notfor the Reasons the Critics Have in Mind

[Jesse Lemisch]

I think I had neglected to pass on the following during earlier postings on
this thread. In the fall of 1969, when some of us were planning a radical
caucus at the December meeting of the Amer Hist Assn - intending to run
Staughton Lynd for president, bringing an anti-war resolution to the
business meeting -- my multi-page planning letter was widely distributed. It
produced from Genovese the warning, "it will be to the knife," and AHA
authorities prepared in, may I say, paranoid style, for our onslaught.

Among those preparing was Hofstadter, who called for te AHA Council to
"organize a counter-revolution." Yes, that's what he said. Put that in your
pipe, along with his address at Grayson Kirk's 1968 counter-commencement.
But let's not forget: as has been posted here, his office door was always
open and he was sos kind to his graduate students. "Counter-revolution"
indeed. Seriously, folks, all this calls for more critical scrutiny of H's
politics and history.

Jesse Lemisch

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> This article touches on American "populism" and its current significance.
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