Volume 11, Number 10 · December 5, 1968
The Art of Comity
By David M. Potter
The Progressive Historians: Turner, Beard, Parrington
by Richard Hofstadter
Knopf, 498 pp., $7.95
In all of his writing, Richard Hofstadter has sought to define the nature of American society as it has expressed itself politically. His viewpoint has been essentially liberal, with emphasis upon the value of an open society. But he has rejected the optimism and complacency of traditional liberal thought. He has refused to accept the textbook view that American history records a continuous unfolding of the democratic ideal, and he is skeptical even about the commitment of the majority of Americans to such an ideal.
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