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@panix.com> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">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 ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk </BLOCKQUOTE> <hr size=1>Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! <a href="http://pa.yahoo.com/*http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=39174/*http://photomail.mail.yahoo.com">New PhotoMail </a> makes sharing a breeze.