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Little r obert hofstadter was born in new york city, educated on the east coast, but spent most of his academic career at stanford university. The populist and progressive movements in this country taken by the author in their largest sense are viewed in their constituent parts and seen as leading to the new dealtype ideal of reform. And in the introduction to the book, hofstadter admitted that he had focused his attention on that side of. Richard hofstadters the age of reform remains fresh and readable today, even though it was written in 1955. He was the dewitt clinton professor of american history at columbia university. The age of reform isbn 9780394700953 pdf epub richard. In the waning decades of the twentieth century, all that was solid seemed to melt into air as scholars emphasized the linguistic play, discursive construction, andor ideological encoding of texts both literary and cultural. Read the fulltext online edition of the age of reform, 18151870 1938. A survey of the humanities, volume i discussion and chapter questions and find culture and values. Why is there no comprehensive education in germany. Buy german unification studies in european culture and history 2011 by caldwell, peter c. It examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 with. Of these perhaps the most notable was his 1955 pulitzer prizewinning the age of reform, which introduced his idea of status politics the. Great issues in american history volume 2, 18641957 by richard hofstadter vol.