The Paranoid Style in American Politics
Douban
And Other Essays
Richard Hofstadter
overview
"The distinguishing thing about the paranoid style is not that its exponents see conspiracies or plots here and there in history, but that they regard a `vast' or `gigantic' conspiracy as the motive force in historical events...The paranoid spokesman sees the fate of this conspiracy in apocalyptic terms--he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values. He is always manning the barricades of civilization." --From the book
contents
Contents
I Studies in the American Right
1. The Paranoid Style in American Politics
2. The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt-1954
3. Pseudo-Conservatism Revisited-1954
4. Goldwater and Pseudo-Conservative Politics
II Some Problems of the Modern Era
5. Cuba, the Philippines, and Manifest Destiny
6. What Happened to the Antitrust Movement?
7. Free Silver and the Mind of "Coin" Harvey
Acknowledgments
Index
