“[Hofstadter’s] account stands as the most balanced and authoritative analysis we have of a formidable and apparently permanent force in American politics.” —The New York Times Book Review“Hofstadter’s essays . . .are calm, clear, dispassionate and devastating-a joy to read.” —Harper’s“Hofstadter’s status theory helps us understand a political history that goes far beyond the issues of the fifties and sixties which it was invoked to explain.” —New Republic
Foreword by Sean Wilentz
Introduction
PART 1: STUDIES IN THE AMERICAN RIGHT
1. The Paranoid Style in American Politics
2. The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt—1954
3. The Pseudo-Conservatism Revisited—1965
4. Goldwater and Pseudo-Conservative Politics
PART 2: SOME PROBLEMS OF THE MODERN ERA
5. Cuba, the Philippines, and Manifest Destiny
6. What Happened to the Anti-Trust Movement?
7. Free Silver and the Mind of “Coin” Harvey
Acknowledgements
Index
