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Re-reading Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" for about the fifth time.
This edition has an excellent, long forward by Sean Wilentz (adds context, and brings it up to date with what came after the author's death).
Written in the 1960s, this book explains SO MUCH about what is happening NOW!
Audiobook available to check-out for free!
https://www.overdrive.com/media/3989985
#RichardHofstadter #Politics #Paranoid #Republicans #GOP #PseudoConservatives #Trump #Goldwater #Reagan
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@hadley. I haven't read #Anti-intellectualism in American Life in a long while (as in since graduate school!) and #TheParanoidStyle in American Politics. Time to reread.
https://www.amazon.com/Anti-Intellectualism-American-Life-Richard-Hofstadter/dp/0394703170
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I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words the grief I feel;
For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.
In Memoriam L.M.R.
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American Xenophobia is Not New, 1960–2000 Was an Aberration
A HN reader asks “What happened to the US in the past fourty years?”... The trend unfortunately dates back through history. The 1960s through 1990s were a high period of openness to foreigners and globalisation, across the political spectrum, though not universally embraced. ... But the xenophobic pattern is clear in the history of American Immigration law. Forced Mexican Repatriation (1932), The National Origins Formula (1924), California Alien Land Law of 1913, Anarchist Exclusion Act (1901), Chinese Exclusion Act (1882). The Page Act (1875) barring “immigrants considered ‘undesirable,’'....
https://joindiaspora.com/posts/4d4f2500c7a40138a805002590d8e506 (dead link)
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#UnitedStates #xenophobia #bigotry #immigration #RichardHofstadter #SamuelMorse #HenryFord #ThomasWatson #MarkTwain #RightWing #RalphEllsworth #SarahHarris #FundForTheRepublic
