Richard Hofstadter An Intellectual Biography

"[An] intelligent and stimulating book....Browns interviews with Hofstadters colleagues and students and his careful reading of Hofstadters copious writings, including unpublished manuscripts and letters, help situate the work in the context of Hofstadters short life (he died, at age 54, of leukemia) and also within the larger tumult of his period. Brown admirably balances respect for his subject with critical distance and persuasively makes the case that the ambiguousness of Hofstadters legacy is inseparable from his continuing interest."Brown, David S. is the author of 'Richard Hofstadter An Intellectual Biography', published 2006 under ISBN 9780226076409 and ISBN 0226076407.