The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
by Richard Hofstadter and Christopher Lasch
IntroductionThe founding fathers, an age of realismThomas Jefferson, the aristocrat as democratAndrew Jackson & the rise of liberal capitalismJohn C. Calhoun, the Marx of the master class Abraham Lincoln & the self-made myth Wendell Phillips, the patrician as agitator The spoilsmen, an age of cynicism William Jennings Bryan, the democrat as revivalist Theodore Roosevelt, the conservative as progressiveWoodrow Wilson, the conservative as liberal Herbert Hoover & the crisis of American individualismFranklin D. Roosevelt, the patrician as opportunistAcknowledgmentsBibliographical EssayIndex
Release Date:
September 20, 1973