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Title: Relevant Today
Review: What I love about Richard Hofstadter is how well he writes and how well he builds arguments. These elements help explain why he remains as relevant today as he was throughout the 1950s and 1960s. This collection of essays features his classic work on American paranoia as how it impacts politics (birth movement, much?) and several very thoughtful analyses on Barry Goldwater.I found the introduction by Sean Wilentz to be sorely lacking in depth. I also found the second half of the collection to be less useful and dated. However, overall, this is a classic primary source by one of the country's greatest thinkers.
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