Hofstadter

[ hof-stat-er, -stah-ter ]

noun

1. Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.
2. Robert, 1915–90, U.S. physicist: Nobel Prize 1961.

Hofstadter

/ hŏf′stăt′ər /

1. American physicist who determined the inner structure of protons and neutrons (1948) and in 1961 shared with German physicist Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer the 1961 Nobel Prize for physics.

Example Sentences

Hofstadter’s mention of some abolitionists “who regarded the United States as being in the grip of a slaveholders’ conspiracy” rings true.

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In the 1950s, you had people like Richard Hofstadter and Arthur Schlesinger moving back and forth between the two worlds.

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Whether or not we live in a more paranoid era than the one Hofstadter was writing about is, however, open to question.

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It turned out that the paranoid style described by Hofstadter was equally a property of the left and right.

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In 1962, historian Richard Hofstadter famously dubbed it “anti-intellectualism in American life.”

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Half a century ago, the great American historian Richard Hofstadter wrote about “the paranoid style in American politics.”

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